Moments of week 43

Moments of our week 43: A working day as a tour leader - Home work at the riding school - Lovely sunsets - Sofia partecipating in the Regional dressage championships - A nice dinner with friends at a the Chinese restaurant near our house

Week 42 - A warm week in October

Week 42, the third week of October was still warm here in Rome. We spent a lot of time at the riding school. Spending time with friends is important for both Sofia and Carlotta and if you add being together with horses it's the best time spent.
Monday is the only day when the riding school is closed an I had time to make a cheese pie.
Carlotta likes to do scrapbooking when she has time. I have had too much work to have time for paper scrapbooking, but one day I will sit down and do it together with Carlotta.
On Tuesday I had a briefing for a nice job in the centre of Rome. The place for the briefing had a beautiful view watching the St. Peter's Church. It was for a job as a tour leader for the next week.
Sofia trained for a dressage competition this week.
On Sunday we had a very nice barbeque with our friends in our garden. We stayed there till it got dark. The only thing that disturbed us were the flies. When it's warm weather in autumn we have loads of them.

Week 41 - Horses and visiting Rome

We spent lots of time with the horses again this week, but we also did something different. On Saturday we went to the centre of Rome with our friend who is a guide. It's always a pleasure to visit Rome with her. She has lots of stories to tell about the all the monuments and the churches and we spent a lovely afternoon in Rome. I managed to get the whole family with me, which isn't so usual nowadays as everyone has different interests. We saw different churches, had an ice cream and in the end we went to Piazza Navona.

Week 40 - Sofia's birthday

We came home from Berlin on Sunday. Carlotta was so glad about the small hair things we bought her. We spent a lot of time at the riding school as the weather was very nice and warm. Carlotta often did her homework there and I made focaccia for lunch to eat there.
This week it was Sofia's 13th birthday. Another teenager in the family now. We celebrated her birthday with a cake at the riding school and afterwards we went out for dinner to a chinese restaurant. On Saturday evening Sofia had invited a few friends to our house. Two of them slept over and they had a nice time. On Sunday Sofia had a dressage competition. She likes jumping more, but I think it was a good experience.

Week 39 - Berlin

On Monday Carlotta's swimming school started and she liked it. We went to the park one afternoon. On Friday all three children went to spend the week-end at their friends' houses and on Saturday morning me and my husband took an early morning flight to Berlin. Armando run the marathon there on Sunday. There wasn't so much time to visit Berlin as the marathon took half a day and the day before we had to go to the marathon expo to pick up the race number. It also felt a bit lonesome to walk around there alone while my husband was resting at the hotel or running the marathon, so I think I won't go on marathon travels without my children or a friend anymore. I got a general glance at Berlin. I didn't fall in love with the town, but I'm sure it would have been more interesting if I had seen some art exhibitions and if I had had company to share it all with. The nicest part of our trip was when we had a beer at a pub with other Italian marathoners before leaving. It was very easy to get to the airport by train from the town center and it only took about 20 minutes. This was our first time travelling without our children.