Last stop on this fast trip - Venice. Daddy was not originally planning to go there but since Mara and Nicola never took Zaira and not sure if they ever took Greta, and it only being a 1 hour train ride away, Daddy thought it was a must. So we left in the morning and caught the train in Pordenone for Venezia. I had a lot of fun on the train with the girls. Venice was beautiful....so many little canals and old buildings. For the first 1 hour, I was in a pretty grumpy mood. Daddy says I have 1/2 day on every trip where I am in a bad mood, but he says that is understandable. And lucky for both of us, it did not last too long. I had fun playing in San Marcos ... read more

Next stop....was in the Veneto. The first place that I went "wine tasting" when I was 3 months old. This was a place near Verona, where Romeo and Juliet are from which was in a song by Justin Bieber who I had Daddy play over and over again while we were driving. Daddy did think it was pretty funny when I changed the lyrics of one of his songs from " You Smile, I Smile" to "You Smell, I smell" after a day that we were in need of a shower. Anyway, after listnening to Justin Beiber sing "baby, baby, baby" about 35 times we arrived in our hotel. Daddy decided to go to one wine tasting place so that there would only be 3 the next day. It was Castellani, and I watched a movie ... read more

Now it was time to drive back to Italy where we would spend the rest of our time. We drove to Allesandro's house but on the way we stopped by a small town named Recco for some focaccia di recco. It was soooo good; very doughy and cheezy and daddy and I loved it. We ate like pigs. Then back Alessandro's house. A few of his friends came over and they were very nice. Daddy loved his basement/cellar with wine older than he was. We all went out for dinner to a restuaurant in a small town "in the middle of no where" called Berzano San Pietro . They served "Fritto Misto alla Piemontese", which was basically a whole bunch of things fried from chicken, to mushrooms from apples to chocolate and a few other things ... read more

Time for another trip, and I had told daddy that I wanted to go back to Italy since I did not remember the place I was born (I left when I was 4 months old). Daddy wanted to go as well as he had not been back for over 5 years. So he planned a crazy fast trip of winetasting, visiting friends, and seeing some places he had never been as well. We flew into turin after stopping in Paris (Unfortunately not enough time to see that famous tower I see on TV). We drove to Alessandro's house. Alessandro, his girl friend, Ilaria, and his friend, Andrea, couch surfed at our house in Miami a few months ago and had a great time. So, daddy kept in touch and Alessandro and Ilaria decided to spend the ... read more

So we have been staying in Sint Maarten for the past 5 days but it is our last post. THat is because we spent most of our time in St. Martin and visiting St. Barts and Anguilla during most of the days. Every night we ate dinner in Sint Maarten though and most nights where at the Green House which I liked a lot. However, the last full day of our trip, after revisiting the Butterfly Farm in the morning on the French side of the island, St. Martin, we spent the day near our hotel in Philipsburg. Daddy and I were amazed how such a quiet town at night turned into a crazy busy, party atmosphere city during the day with the cruise ships. Sooo many people, shops, music. It was a lot of fun. ... read more