Italy! In Search of Desiderio.

Our long awaited trip to Rick's father's hometown has begun.

We arrived safely in Milan and spent a day and a half adjusting to the time change and seeing a few of the sites.  The best was the view and architecture at the top of their Duomo!

More Photos on Facebook.

Then, the train to Vicenza, and on to the Simionis of Thiene and the wedding of Elisa and Diego.
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Prayers to the Roman god Vulan!

Geez, and just when we thought our trip to Italy was all set, a Volcano in Iceland causes great havoc across European travel!

We were getting pretty nervous.  Hey, we would not mind be stuck IN Italy but we would sure like to get there.

It was a horrible situation for people stranded all over the world.  In fact, as of today, a full week later, some people have not yet been able to get to where they were going.

Meanwhile, we said our prayers to the Roman god Vulcan!  And as of today, the mountain is "resting".  Hopefully we'll be able to fly out Tuesday!

click: Volcano stories

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Happy 24th Birthday Julian! and an Earthquake in San Diego!

Happy 24th Birthday Julian!

Rick and I are up in San Francisco and celebrating Julian's birthday with him!

If you are on Facebook, and especially if you play FarmVille, you'll understand this gift to Julian!  He's a programmer for FarmVille, in San Francisco.  Last week his first original idea was implemented on the game!  He came up with the option to "TP" other friend's barns! 

We are sooooo proud!  haha.  It was fun, and funny.  Hence, the end of the roll of toilet paper for a gift from mom! 

Later in the week I found this photo (1987) and posted it on Facebook with the note "who would have thought this would be his future?!?"  Hey, the brat could be making "6 figures" before he's out of college two years.  Bring on the TP!!!   

Love that 1972 flooring.....

Meanwhile, I missed mentioning that I was looking around San Francisco thinking about the possibilities of "The Big One" hitting while we were there.  And what happens?  Easter Sunday a good size earthquake shook San Diego!

Facebook accounts alerted me to what had been happening and while the 7.2 quake was actually just south of the border in Mexico, it splashed water out of local swimming pools (maybe ours too, but we were not there to see) shook homes and cars for 45 seconds.  That's a long time when you are in one!

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San Diego Earthquake story

Neighbors are worried now about our month-long Italy trip!  Since the great fires a few years ago happened while we were in our RV "up north", strong storms hit while we were on our Florida RV trip, and now an earthquake shakes it up while we are in San Francisco.....  !!

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