An Overview for the Impatient

Hi everybody, we are back from our two week vacation in Tuscany with Beeba!
On our first night, before we picked up Beeba, we had dinner at a fancy restaurant in Parma. This was a learning experience for our children, who had to behave for SEVERAL entire courses. The dessert course was popular...

But before we got to the dessert course, we had to explain several things about fancy restaurants. One typically does not eat the tablecloth. Or use one's bread roll as an extra thumb...

The food, once it *finally* came, was very good!

Then Beeba arrived!

Wm and Mg were her immediate buddies. As long as she obeyed their commands.

We had picnics.

Some of us looked cute in the woods.

The landscapes went on forever.

We spent a lot of time in "The Beeba Garden" looking at photos.

Some of us were not always properly attired for visiting Catholic Cathedrals.

William wants to know: "Why does Jesus always live by the knights?"

Beeba and I climbed several towers. Here, we look down on our peeps, who are being very loud and wild in the courtyard.

The cities looked like this.

But before, more like this.

William and Margaret were good little siblings and demonstrated safe street behaviour at times.

Margaret's first wine tasting!

William actually got to taste all three local wines. The white made him scratch his tongue.

We toured countless cities looking like this. William is wearing balloon antlers. He is the "grown-up" Bambi.

Wow, look up! Check out that Cathedral!

If you can get your eyes off these characters, that is!