A Trip to Remember

We finally made our way to Disney! The boys had a great time overall. We learned a lot, ate a lot, waited a lot and walked a lot. We even got a lot of rain but you wouldn't know it from the pictures. The boys favorite rides were "It's a Small World" and "Toy Story Mania". If you ask Francesco his favorite part of the trip he will say, "the whole entire thing", if you ask Nicolo he will say, "the roller coasters". Not sure why he says that since he was not able to go on any roller coasters, but he went on a lot of other rides.



I of course took a ton of pictures. I made a little collage of my favorites.





If I had to pick one picture from the hundreds that I took as one to hang on the wall it would be this one.







I have a solo picture of Nicolo that I am going to hang and now I have one with a similar composition of Francesco. These are begging to be made into canvases.







Overall it was a fabulous vacation, a definite must do again. Now to get ready for school. Kindergarten is starting in two weeks and we have a few more things to do to prepare. Look for a sappy, emotional post about the first day.

Finally a Vacation

For the first time in 3 1/2 years Michael and I skipped town for a few days...alone! My wonderful sister volunteered to take the boys and my neighbors took the cat. We packed our bags and headed for Sin City...that's right, Vegas Baby!

First off we are not big gamblers but we came to Vegas for our Honeymoon (we were suppose to take a cruise out of New Orleans but hurricane Katrina hit and that wasn't happening). We had a great time and did so much more than gamble the last time we were there.

This time again we had some other plans (besides sitting by the pool and floating on the lazy river). We saw 2 show (Blue Man Group...awesome and Cirque du Soleil...amazing), we took a Pink Jeep Tour of the Red Rock Canyon and visited the West Rim of the Grand Canyon. We did also gamble a little and pretty much broke even (Michael would win back what I lost).

Here are just a few photo's from the trip.

Arriving in Vegas.

The good old MGM Lion.

This is the ceiling in the theater where we saw Cirque du Soleil, I got yelled at for taking that one before the show so I was too chicken to get my camera out during.

This is the Pink Jeep Tour we took to Red Rock. Its an enclosed, air conditioned jeep, sweet.

The colors of the rock are amazing.

More red rock.

This is a close up I took with my NEW 70-300mm lens I got from my wonderful husband the day before we left on vacation.

The west rim of the Grand Canyon

Eagles Point

Eagles Point Close up... do you see the Eagle?

This is my favorite and my favorite spot at the Grand Canyon, it was called Guano Point.


I also took a ton of photos of the desert foliage, who would have thought so much stuff actually grew in the desert. I figured I would save them for another post. I used the 70-300mm and got some really neat close ups. I had a fabulous time and started to miss my boys after 3 days. I was happy to see them when I got home yesterday. I knew the vacation was over this morning @ 4:00 am when Nicolo decided he was getting up for the day.

Welcome Home Mommy!