Europe

Okay, I have to record the rest of our Europe trip- I’ll try to make it as quick and painless as possible.

Brett’s mom, his sister Kris, and his brother Blake flew here and we went on a whirlwind tour of some cities in Germany, Austria, Italy, and of course, Switzerland. Here’s Hazel and Ethne and Talmage in Munich. Hazel likes to climb on statues. I thought these little guys were so cute. Very big castle in Munich. You can’t even tell just how huge it was from the pictures. This was in Salzburg. Blake wanted a picture of him and all the horses and carriages lined up. Everyone in Salzburg. Venice. I thought it was a really cool thing to ride down the “streets” of the city to where our hotel was.

Blake and JethroKris and Hazel

In an alley.

I have lots of pictures of Blake- I think it is because 1. he is a child magnet, and so one of more of my children were always hanging on him, and 2. he just got engaged right before he came (YAAAAYYYY!!!) so in the back of my head I kept thinking I was taking pictures for Julia.

On the day we left Venice there was a strike, so most of the boats weren’t running. Italy is a cool place. Florence. It was hot.

So we got icecream. Blake wanted a picture with the cool-hat-police. I thought Florence was cool too. So many crazy naked statues.

This (the middle, forward one) was a particularly weird statue. Don’t look too close. Here we are in front of our hotel room. We ate gelatto. We LOVED gelatto. Gelatto is wonderful.

In the market.

He’s so cute. They’re cute too.Blake bought a purse for Julia in the market. There were TONS of purses. A little woodshop. Pisa. It was hot there too. Leaning tower. More to come.