giovedì 24 febbraio 2011

Carnival period

Now it's the carnival period. We haven't been to any carnival celebrations yet, but on Sunday Carlotta wanted to dress up. The weather was nice so the children played quite a lot out in the garden and then we went to the park.

What else have we been doing here since we came back from Finland? Well, me and Sofia have made the decision to move to another riding school as there had been quite a lot of problems with the organisation in our old one. Problems, I think, that would be absolutely unacceptable in Finland, but here somehow you accept them. It wasn't an easy decision, but we hope it was the right one! At least I'm very happy with the riding instructor and also the horses. Sofia misses her friends in the other riding school, but hopefully she will soon make new ones.
Beside school and work we spend a lot of time with the horses and Daniele playing football and seeing friends during the week-ends. He often sleeps over at his friend's house on Fridays and usually he has his football match on Saturday afternoon when me and Sofia go horse riding. Carlotta takes riding lessons on a small pony Saturday mornings and she likes it a lot.
Januray and February has been much less rainy than last year, which is very nice for our outdoor activities!