domenica 11 novembre 2012

Week 42 - Chocolate delight

On week 42 Daniele's friend from Finland came to visit us for the week-end. He brought some Finnish chocolate to the children. I wasn't at home so much during the week-end because Sofia had show jumping both on Saturday and Sunday quite far from our home, so we spent almost the whole day there. She did well and got third prize on Sunday. In the evening we all went out for a pizza on Friday and to a Chinese restaurant together with some friends on Saturday. Armando took the boys to the centre of Rome on Sunday. I hope Daniele's friend had a good time here in Rome with Daniele.
The photo of the week is of Carlotta with the chocolate. A delighful moment! 

Layouts about San Casciano

I did some digital layouts about our day in San Casciano. Here they are:






lunedì 5 novembre 2012

Week 41 - Day trip to S. Casciano

This week we had two birthday parties - one for Sofia with her riding friends at the barn restaurant and one for Carlotta with her classmates at Mc Donalds. We had promised her a birthday party with her friends in Italy (her birthday was in July) and finally in October we did it. But the nicest thing of the week, I think, was our day trip to S. Casciano dei Bagni in Tuscany together with our friends. It's a small village with a lovely scenery over the Tuscan hills and there are hotsprings, both free ones outside in the nature and a spa. We went to the free baths and had a pick nick lunch there with red wine and it was so relaxing. We spent a few hours there in the warm water in good company chatting and laughing. Then it started raining, so we went up to the village and waited for the rain to stop drinking a coffee in the bar. We had a walk in S. Casciano and went to a wine cellar to buy some wine and then we went to see another village called Cetona before driving back to Rome. The only bad thing about the day was that, unfortunately, there had been a car accident on the motorway which had caused a traffic jam so the trip back home took quite a while.
In the photo of this week we are going down to the hot springs. The scenery is so beautiful!