The past few days have been full, with Allen's sister and her twentysomething children staying in Assis, also. Trying to arrange meeting places. restaurant locations, and walks for seven people, including two children, whew!
We did have a fun day of cooking and eating at a woman's house in the country on the first day: Anne is one smart lady: she took us to the market, the cheese store and then took us to her home to teach us how to prepare three wonderful Umbrian dishes. We ate like wild boars that you see from time to time here and paid her enough to buy her month's groceries, all the while we had a great time. I'm terribly envious of her vocation!
Yesterday we took a walk along stone paths above the city to see the famous frescoes in the church where St. Francis is buried. It took us two cafe's and two gelatterias (Kira is still looking for the Whitey's flavors) to get there.
Because complete silence is required in the gigantic church, I gave Kira & Luke lollypops to last our tour. (there are even "shhhhhhhh's" coming over the speakers in the basilica. I could never figure if they were recorded or if there was a professional Shusher around). There are hundreds of frescoes, so Allen enjoyed playing the "can you find the..." game with children.
Allen and I were so tired at the end of the day, that when we spotted a spotted lizard on our bedroom wall, we both decided he would stay on his side of the room and we were ok.
Everyone else went on a wine tour to Tuscany today while the children and I had a mini church service in the apartment and went to the play area and took naps. A perfect Sunday.
We did have a fun day of cooking and eating at a woman's house in the country on the first day: Anne is one smart lady: she took us to the market, the cheese store and then took us to her home to teach us how to prepare three wonderful Umbrian dishes. We ate like wild boars that you see from time to time here and paid her enough to buy her month's groceries, all the while we had a great time. I'm terribly envious of her vocation!
Yesterday we took a walk along stone paths above the city to see the famous frescoes in the church where St. Francis is buried. It took us two cafe's and two gelatterias (Kira is still looking for the Whitey's flavors) to get there.
Because complete silence is required in the gigantic church, I gave Kira & Luke lollypops to last our tour. (there are even "shhhhhhhh's" coming over the speakers in the basilica. I could never figure if they were recorded or if there was a professional Shusher around). There are hundreds of frescoes, so Allen enjoyed playing the "can you find the..." game with children.
Allen and I were so tired at the end of the day, that when we spotted a spotted lizard on our bedroom wall, we both decided he would stay on his side of the room and we were ok.
Everyone else went on a wine tour to Tuscany today while the children and I had a mini church service in the apartment and went to the play area and took naps. A perfect Sunday.
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