Another Lazy Day . . .

Friday, 29 June, 2012

This is our last day in Tuscany.  We were very lazy.  Reading, swimming, and using iPods.  Just ran to the bank and the grocery store in Asciano.  The flies are driving us crazy.  They are all over and since there are no screens, they are driving us crazy indoors as well.  I have told the children that they get a prize if they kill one. 

Kind of dark, but it's Anneliese

Randy had the children each type a blog entry for his blog (even though we still don’t have wi-fi access).  It was interesting reading them.  Annie wrote about our overall vacations, the benefits and the drawbacks for a teenager, getting rather poetic about the beauty all around us in Tuscany.  Shelby wrote more about what she has seen, in the same run-on sentences that she speaks in. : )   Joshua dictated to Randy, focusing, of course, on the buildings, but also talking about learning new facts about places and learning more about the culture of the people that live there.  

Joshua

Tomorrow, we face a 5 hour drive to a small village outside of Sorrento.  We are breaking it up with a stop about two hours from here to see two more towns.  Slightly cooler today, but still very hot.  We washed our last load of clothes last night and when I took them out, I realized that we had set the washing machine at 60 degrees and put Shelby’s red cotton skirt in with whites.  Well, I didn’t take out any whites.  I washed them again right away, before setting them on the rack to dry, but they are still all shades of pink and brown.  We don’t have a clothes dryer, but we have a drying rack.  We set it up outside the door, and the sun is so hot and the air so dry, the clothes are all dry (even denim shorts) in less than half an hour--less time than a dryer would take. 

Shelby

Hopefully we will have wi-fi and a washing machine, and air conditioning in our new place.  But I’m sure it will be beautiful wherever we are.  It is Italy after all!!     

The Tuscan countryside at dusk

Just before sunset we took a short walk to see it--awfully pretty, don’t you think?