~4th of July~

This 4th of July was the best one we've had here in Italy. The pictures speak a million words...

The fireworks show was great as well, but didn't include pictures, because pictures of fireworks aren't too impressing...at least mine aren't.

Look Mom.... No Training Wheels.....

So there I was... mowing the lawn...
AND... Here comes Christian... "MOM--MOM--MOOOOOMMMMMM-- COME LOOK AT THIS!!!!! HURRY!!!!! So I stopped the lawn mower and found that Christian had almost mastered riding a bike without training wheels. Here's the proof....

Downtown Vicenza

It is unusual for us to go downtown Vicenza... but we found ourselves there twice in one week. On the 1st of July we had dinner with Chad's friend Brad. It was an awesome restraunt real close to the square. We had an awesome time. Two days later Nancy and I went to the downtown market. We had fun shopping, and maybe even more fun eating gelato. Poor Kirra was at Summer Enrichment, so we tried to make up by buying her ice cream from Baskin Robins... Oh poor Kirra!

Festa di Davis Casa....

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Summer time in Italy is time for the local festa. Our little town Grossa has Sagra delle Rane.... or Frog Festival as translated in English... and YES they do serve frog as a main course. Yea I know YUCK...but since this is our last year here... we had to try it. Living across the street from this is a bit crazy.... there is nowhere to park and you have noise from tons of people celebrating till 2 in the morning. Here is a slideshow of our FUN @ tha Festa!!!

On the last night they have a beautiful fireworks display... here is a 10 second clip of them from our balcony...

Ketchup.....

Oh wait! I mean I need to catch up. Its been a month since I've posted anything. Although that doesn't mean there hasn't been A LOT going on. So, where to start? I guess I ended on 24 July... so we will pick up on the next day.... Kirra wasn't feeling well when she woke up, so we were hanging out in our PJ's when I caught her practicing her guitar....I thought this was pretty cute and glad I caught it on video.