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Benny the Shnitsengruben

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Firenze

Here we are in the Roma Tiburtina train station waiting for our fancy FrecciaRossa  train to arrive.

We went to the Uffizi.

 Yeah. The Uffizi.

 Uh-huh.

Yep. 

Sí.  Gía.

Yeppy-yeah. 

Meanwhile...

The next day, at the Duomo.

Note: I am not pooping in this picture. 

Or this one. But it looks like Benny might. 

Sketching.

 

Still sketching.

Lions.

Oh, no! The Duomo's falling! That concludes our blogpost. Bye!

Halloween

Halloween!!!!! Here are our costumes. Let me explain. Mom's a spider, Ben's Spiderman, I'm Bloody Mary the ghost, Dad's bloody mary the drink.

  This is my costume up close.

This  is Benny's costume up close.

Trick-or-treating.

Halloween video. #Youmustwatch.

back to school

BACK TO SCHOOL

This is my first day photo! You can't really see, but my hair is dyed blue at the bottom. I go to Ambrit International School and yes, they speak English there. I'm in class 3L and my best friend is named Martha. My teacher's name is Ms. Anne-Marie. My favorite subject is music and ICT (iPads and computers).

This is us waiting at the bus stop. It takes forever for the 710 to come.

This is Benny's first day photo. He goes to Ambrit school too, but it's in a different building and it's called Ambrit EC which stands for early childhood. His best friend's name is Tamo and her sister Vega is a close friend of mine. I don't know what his favorite subject is, but he did squish grapes with his feet to make wine the other day, so that's a start.

Ostia

OSTIA

We went to Ostia, a small town outside of Rome. It's actually an archeological site from 1st century AD (we think). You get to see the whole town. You get to run around and jump on stuff. We got to see some sites that would not normally be open to the public.

This is a birds-eye view looking down off the top of what used to be the baths. It's a picture of me (Hannah), Silas, Henry and Jeremy (their dad).

This is Benny near an ancient fire station. You can see the tracks for the fire wagon wheels to come out of the garage.

We ate lunch on the steps of an ancient temple to Ceres.

This is the roof of what would have been an apartment building. The gate you can see is not part of what you could see in the first century AD (obviously).

This is Henry and me jumping over a giant crack in the ground.

I took these ones:

But Dad took this one.

Other stuff

Once again, this blog is now written by Hannah.

Me and my friend Silas went to this old hospital which was now turned into a museum. We made lamps and beads which was pretty cool except the only downside was that everyone only spoke Italian so Mom had to translate. But other than that it was pretty cool.

On the way home it took 45 minutes to wait for the bus. But then we had pizza at Alice Pizza (you pronounce it A-LEE-chay Pizza. That's my new code name. Dad's is Don Gnocchi).

Later that day we stopped for gelato which was amazing. I had both cinnamon and chocolate which don't taste that great together but they still taste really good on their own. Henry had oreo flavor. I can't remember what Silas had. Benny had chocolate and vanilla.

Il barbieri

Benny got a haircut. Our friend Henry made a joke: the place was called Stile Uomo (Man Style) and Benny was dressed as Superman, so Henry joked that the Man of Steel went to Stile Uomo.

After, he got a spremuta which is basically what we would call fresh squeezed orange juice.

In fact, it was so fresh that the first time I had one, I sucked up an orange seed.

Ciao Ragazzi! Hannah😊💩😁😀

Swimming

Ladispoli

We went to this town called Ladispoli. The sand was BLACK which we thought was because it was made out of lava rock. There were a lot of waves and I got smashed around a couple of times but it was really fun.

Mom says: You rent these little umbrellas that come with tables and hooks for your towels attached and lounge chairs with built-in face shaders for maximum lounging. Plus there's always a cafe nearby so you can drink your cappuccino while you ignore the children.

Lake Bracciano

We also went swimming at this lake with our friends Henry and Silas. We took a train there. It was pretty cool.  We saw swans. I was about to touch one when I realized that was NOT a good idea. Before we left we got popsicles.

Siamo in Italia! (We're in Italy!)

So, whatever, we're in Italy, no big deal. (BTW, this is Hannah now).

Apparently, Superman came to Italy. That's the Vatican in the background.

Ben says: "I'm Superman! Flying in the sky!"

We went to Miami to get ice cream. Miami is the name of a gelato store in our neighborhood. I ordered a Nutella cone which I thought was going to be Nutella flavored gelato but it turned out to be just a cone of straight Nutella. I purposefully dropped a piece of the ground because it was just too much for me.

This is the view from the hill above our house. You can see the Colosseum. We live on Janiculum hill in Monteverde Vecchio. You should come visit!