Monday, July 30, 2012

Our Italian Vacation

We just got back from Tuscany, Italy late Saturday night. We spent a week in a little village called Fosciandora. The house we rented, La Collina del Sole was beautiful.  Our friends from Sweden, Petra & Bjorn and their kids Oskar & Sofia were already there waiting for us when we arrived.
La Collina del Sole

View from the pool
Petra & I on the patio

Fun at the dinner table


Mia & Bjorn

Mia loved hanging out with Sofia who is 6 and Oskar who is 4
We had great food thanks to Petra

 Enjoing our wonderful lunch
Emma & Julia loved their baby pool.

You have to taste the wine before you buy it, even if it's 10 in the morning!

Pizza lunch in Castelnuovo Di Garfagnana, the closest town

Roasting Marshmallows   
The kids were in the pool most of the time, but here they're taking a little break and having some drawing time. 
We spent one day on the beach in Forte Dei Marmi
By the last day, Mia could swim from one end of the pool to the other by herself (with floaties of course).


Our last night we had fantastic food catered by a lady that has a farm in Fosciandora.  Almost everything was from her farm.  She had made the pasta that same day with eggs that her hens had laid that morning and the wild boar was hunted on the mountain. It was a five course culinary experience for sure!  We had a great time with our friends and the kids had so much fun! 

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