Sonlight Core H Week 6D Jan 23-29, 2017 FLY TO ITALY

Sonlight Core H 

Week 6D 

Jan 23-29, 2017 in Italy!

(PICTURES COMING SOON!)
I will put a few pix in here, but I am going to do individual posts for each place we visited.  For example, one post for the Uffuzi Museum, one post for the Duomo, one post for the Vatican City...so later when I want to look up pictures of a specific place we visited I can type that place into my Search box, at the top of the home page, and go directly to that place and not have to scroll through a lot of typing.

Hello Friends!

 We were getting ready for our trip to Italy and had to focus on getting packed; plus Giz and Grampy arrived on Wednesday.  This was a crazy week!  So much to do in so little time.  We went to Costco and bought a bunch of snack foods to take with us (M&M's, walnuts, almonds, peanuts, dried pears, dried black cherries, dried mango's, peanut butter crackers, protein bars, gum...I used my dehydrator and dried 4-5 big batches of apples, and Giz brought candy for us (wish she hadn't!) to bring along too.  Dd helped me with filling our Ziplock's with our travel food.

Since G&G are going to be staying at our house, I thought I better take down our Christmas tree and decorations (or Giz would do it for me if I left it!)  Agnes was willing to help!

I bought some powder laundry soap, and filled a few snack-size Ziplock baggies with that, and put one bag in each of our suitcases b/c it was so heavy!  I did over-pack that, as we only needed 1 1/2 of the 3 bags I brought.



Packed two BIG water bottles in our suitcases so we could fill them in our hotel room each morning to have free water during the day.



I refilled some old, empty travel-size shampoo and conditioner containers with our normal brands.  I over-packed on this item too.  Dd always says she uses "so much" shampoo, but really it wasn't that much!  But, I was prepared!



Some highlights:

Bible: 
Praying For Your Future Husband by Robin Jones Gunn and Trisha Goyer

Music:

Beginning Band class: 1 1/2 hours

Intermediate Band class: 1 1/2, plus chair test

Piano lesson with Mrs. March: 30 minutes

Violin lesson with Irena: 30 minutes

Alto Sax: 4:00 hours practicing

Tenor Sax: 2 hours practicing

piano: 2:00 hours practicing

violin: 1:00 practicing

Fun Reading: (In Process)

The Finishing School (series): Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10874177-etiquette-espionage

Rilla of Ingleside by L.M. Montgomery 

Dd and I worked on the treadmill prepping for all the walking we would be doing in Italy.

Fun Reading:
America at Home, A close-up look at how we live.

Math: 

Math U See: Geometry: 8 A-D

Youtube: Italy Research

We watched video's on what to do in Italy--specifically Bologna, Florence, and Rome.

Travel:
On Friday we flew to Newark, NJ; Frankfurt, Germany; and arrived in Bologna, Italy on Saturday.  We stayed at a really nice hotel--ZanHotel Tre Vecchi--for six nights!
http://www.zanhotel.it/en/hotel-tre-vecchi-bologna

Saturday:
We were invited to dinner at Pino restaurant after checking into ZanHotel Tre Vecchi.  The three of us had individual pizza's for our main dish.  Our appetizer was bruschetta and a meat platter, with the regions well known mortadella and spicy salami.  Dh had pannacotta for dessert, and Dd and I had gelato.  It was a fantastic meal!!

Sunday: In Bologna, Italy
Breakfast in Bologna was great!!!!  I'm writing this after our trip, and our breakfast's in Bologna were the best!  We had super crusty (good thing) breads, airy-flaky croissants--some with Nutella inside, or jams/jellies, swiss cheese, brie cheese, scrambled eggs, hard boiled eggs, prosciuto, espresso's, Cafe Americano's, cappuccino's, cookies, not a lot of fruit--oranges, pears...

We walked around Bologna and had a quiet Sunday; going to bed early.  After all the hoops of getting to Bologna we were ready for a restful day!

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