San Giamanano

Matt was proud to have the guard of the Torture Museum model a Mountain View Construction Hat...it matched Mateo's and made quite a trek to be pictured here

Mateo's new favorite friends, Cole & Ellie, outside the fountain in the center of the Piazza in San Giamanano...

The view from the top of the tower...Matt made the hike...

The bottom of said hiked tower...it was way taller than it looked...

See previous comments about how our family looks so goofy in family pictures...Cielle is looking marvelous as always...

Love from Oregon, Sarah

More from Assisi

Cielle and her beau Dario, resting on a ledge overlooking the Umbrian landscape...

Matt & I at a restaurant in Assisi...we would go to dinner at 7:30 and be the very first ones at the restaurant...

Cielle & Dario waiting to eat....

Teresa and I were so struck by the entry ways in Assisi...

Mateo loved chasing pigeons in the piazza, but he especially loved when Dario helped him feed the pigeons. Can we say shrieks of laughter abounded??

Interruption on Italy

So some of you may know that I have a new job with the Oregon Economic and Community Development Department...I am currently on a 9 city in 12 day road show tour through Oregon on some feedback forums for our stakeholders. Matt & Mateo came on this leg which includes Bend, Medford, Roseburg & Eugene. Matt & Mateo got to play near Crater Lake today, while Mom worked in Medford...the pictures tell quite a story.

At the lake...

Dutifully pondering a small bug or something like that...

Daddy, I said NO MORE PICTURES!!!

More Italy photos this weekend we hope...but these were too good to pass up.

Hugs from The Roseburg Sleep Inn...Sarah & boys

Assisi, Italy

Outside the Church of San Rufino in Assisi...we are so small next to buildings built so long ago...

This is a view from a piazza in Assisi...Umbria (the region just south of Tuscany) is so gorgeous...

Mateo and his love for small places found lots of places to squeeze into...

This was a castle up on the hill above Assisi surrounded by fog & clouds...

A view of Assisi from the south end (in the piazza of St. Clare)...

More later...I'm headed to bed now.

Hugs, Sarah

First Italy Pics

Mateo climbing out of the schnazy rental car we had for our 13 hour layover in Seattle...

We visited Tegan, who has cool statues in her neighborhood...

Not to mention a park...

About 40 hour later, we are sticking our feet in the ocean on the beach in Pisa, Italy

This is my friend Teresa Preston (from Book club) standing outside our hotel in Marina di Pisa.

More pictures coming...Sarah