Wome, venewdi 4/4/08

befowe I go on about my twip, I just wanted to tell you about some vewy sad news Hammers bruvvew-horse Khomet has gone to the rainbow bridge...please go to hammers bloggy at http://hammerbeau.blogspot.com/.

Susan is heartbroken..this is twuly howwible aftew all that Susan has been thwough..

and then I found out that my wriend Miral who I was pwaying fow went to the Wainbow Bwidge yesterday after being recently diagnosed with Dilated Cardiomyopathy. I will miss you, sweet Miral.My sympafies to youw family and especially to my fwiend Ruis

and then I wead the news about the tewwible fiwe that destwoyed the home of Lilly Lu, Mu Shue, Iris and of their mom, Laura. We awe still waiting to heaw wowd about the fate of Lilly Lu, Mu Shue and Iris, but I am hoping that somehow they wewe able to escape to safety. Hewe is a link to the news story about the fiwe. UPDATE
I just heawd the good news that these kitties wewe found and awe now wenited wif theiw Mom

this is vewy impowtant fow evewy fuwwkid!!!

One way you can help keep cats and dogs safer in a fire is with pet rescue window decals that will alert rescue personnel that pets are inside your home. And you can get them free from the ASPCA. We are going to order some today.

please cwoss youw paws fow a miwacle fow these little innocent kids!!!!!!!
I m so vewy sad about all this news


so now back to my stowy

We got back fwom Wavenna and dwopped ouw stuff off in the hotel, and got going again

I went out on the tewwace to sniff the aiw and see what the weathew was like

stawted walking awound ouw neighbowhood again

evewywhewe you look thewe awe hoomans sitting awound enjoying themselves..these Woman's know how to live

They use tiny little smawt caws ow scootews..you nevew see the monstew hooge caws we have hewe..even theiw twucks in the city awe small...we weally liked that

I love the flowewing twees

Mommi only did window shopping..she said the dollaw was wowfless and she didn't have much of even that anyway, hehehe..but we love looking at stuff anyway
I pwefew meeting doggies and contwibooting to intewnational good welations
We went to the Twevi Fountain, cause I had a date to meet Scruffy and babyStan..nobody believed me
Hahahahaha...who has the last laugh now????
Thewe they wewe..I didn't think they meant to meet IN the fountain, but you nevew can tell wif those guys

I told them to come out of the watew and come see some of the sights

we went to the woof of the Hotel Rafael..it's kind of a snazzy hotel wif a gweat view, but they let you go up if you act like you belong and know what you'we doing and of couwse we did
Scwuffy and BabyStan wewn't all that intewested in the sights, they came fow the essentials

GELATO!!!!!!!!!..
I don't know why that old guy is being so wude and stawing at us...hasn't he evew seen tewwiews enjoying gelato????????

my Pawents wanted to keep going and seeing mowe stuff...but babyStan andScruffy just wanted to stay at the gelato place and then they had to go wight home, cause they wewe planning some secwet pawty,
in the late aftewnoon ..evewyone walks awound ..it's called the passiagiata time....you sit and have a dwink and watch all the people....wif youw dwink, you get all kinds of munchies
we did the sitting awound till it got dawk and then walkied some mowe and found a place to go eat
all these windy stweets all of a sudden get big and thewe is a squawe..always wif westauwants awound
we weally liked this stweet and thewe was a westauwant next to this baw, whewe my pawents wanted to come back to

and guess what we did aftew dinnew, heheheheheheh

a pawfect way to end the day

nighty night
( I suwe hope Scruffy and babyStan got home OK...wasn't that sweet of them to come and suwpwise me???)

Wome-twip to EMILIA ROMAGNA-Wavenna...giovedi 4/3 08

We awwived at the twain station in Bologna( yes Joey..the whole town is named after Balony, hehehehe..how gweat is that???????)


Thewe waiting on the platfowm was Opus and Roscoe's Mom ,Cyndi, with a welcome sign and giftses fwom my fwiends..they wewe supposed to stay home fow safety
This is Cyn...she lives in Emilia Romagna(that is the name of this wegion), and wuns gweat pawsonal touws! She knows evewything about the wegion..she's fwom Amewica and hew Husband is fwom Italy and he's an Awchitect and a teachew.

if any of you evew go thewe you should contact hew..cause she's tewwific!!
Esperia Travels your personal key to Italy Cynthia Abbott Zalambani info @esperiatravels.com

Thewe's a lot of weally pwetty covewed passageways in Bologna...the people awe vewy nice..(don't let that gwumpy-looking lady on the left fool you)..it's a oonivewsity town..one of the oldest Oonivewsities evew

The vantage point on top of the fountain was much bettew to see the piazza

It was less sunny hewe cause it's fuwthew nowf than Wome, but it was still nice enough to sit outside
We had some baloney samiches, and then look what I found...can't have a day wifout it, hehehe
thewe wew lots of school kids awound..I can take them ow leave them..Mommi pwefews to leave them
aftew lunch, we went back to the twain station, and caught the twain to Wavenna,the city has ancient owigins..fwom the 5th to the 8th centoowies, it was the capitol of the Westewn Woman Empiwe of King Theodowic of the Goths and otf the Byzantine empiwe in Oowope

Wavenna is bootiful...It is the city that keeps the mowtal wemains of Dante and keeps his memowy alive wif lots of impowtant cultoowal events.small enough to explowe easily....
evewyone is on Bicycles

look who snuck out of the house(it's Opus and Roscoe) .........................don't tell theiw Mom

We played and hided while Mommi and Daddi went to visit the Basilica..this is the biggest baftub I've evew seen..I think even Daddi would fit in it
This is inside the Basilica of San Vitale..the gweatest tweasuwe of the eawly Chwistian Ewa

the mosaics awe the most spectacoolaw you have evew seen!!!just look at those colows!

in the gawden outside all you heaw is biwds chiwping..it's peaceful and lovely

These next pictoowes awe in the Mausoleo di Galla Placidia

the intwicate mosaics glisten..thewe is one pawt whewe it's a dawk blue sky, wif golden staws..and the gold takes youw bweaf away Mommi says(she was still bweafing when she came out, so I don't know what she's talking about)
When my pawents had enough of gawking, we wewe weunited fow a family pictoowe
just outside the Basilica, I wan inot a young Whippet..it made me miss my whippet Waggle fwiends..we had a good westle and kiss and then wewe on ouw way
Opus and Woscoe's Mom was such a cutie and lots of fun..not old like my pawents

Aftew dwopping off ouw stuff at the hotel, we went to the Piazza del Popolo(Wavenna used to be a lagoon city like Venice, but the canals wewe closed doowing the pewiod of Venetian Woole at the end of the 15th centoowy)

now it's an elegant gweat squawe...pawfect fow sitting and having a dwink and watching the popolo walk by, hehehehehe

We walked awound neaw the piazza fow a while

This Dante's tomb..whewe his wemains awe..I think that means all his stuff is thewe(I guess like my toy box)

This is Daddi ,Cyn and Danilo aftew the dwink...

they dwopped me off at the hotel, Opus and Roscoe and I sat in the lobby fow a while

we decided to play while the pawents went fow dinnew
(the hotel is in a fowmew Villa..and has a libwawy, gawdens,living woom, and dining wooms as well as halls to wun awound in..pawfect fow playing)


they got home pwetty late and we all went to sneep , cause we had to get up weally eawly to catch the twain back to Wome..we loved it hewe and hope to come back..thewe is so much to see and we bawely had enough time to see a bit of it..plus I want to play wif Opus and roscoe some mowe..these guys awe FUN!

The nice lady at the hotel got up extwa eawly to give us bweakfast in this simple little dining woom, heheheh (Mommi said she would not like to clean that chandeliew..but I think it would make a gweat swing)
We wewe expecting the nowmal caffee latte and wolls and cownetti(we love all that), but look what they gave us..this is nuts!!!!(the little wound donuts on top wewe filled wif custawd)

Cheese and cold cuts (prosciutto etc.) and little wawm spinach filled tawt

fwesh peaw cake, ricotta cake, othew cakes, stwudel...we had to taste evewything..you don't want to keel ovew on the twain fwom stawvation, hehehehe

back to the twain

this is the way to the station in Bologna whewe we twansfew


see you back to Woma
CIAO