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Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Our pictures in Spain & Italy -- May 2009

Now here are just a "few" pictures of our European vacation... I literally took approx 700 pictures (yeah, I know, I am worse than a Japanese person...).



Here we had just arrived in Barcelona, Spain...


Luca with his Nana Silvia and Nonna Pina.

Playing with Nana Silvia in the hammock...

Kiko breaking the news to my parents that they are moving back to Sao Paulo... he got a job promotion and they need him there now...my parents are SUPER happy...

Me playing around at Tio Kiko & Tia Euri's house.

Hammocking again...

Can we fish here??

Port Vell, the oldest part of Barcelona harbor.

Nonna and Nana at the harbor.

Barri Gotic... Gothic Quarter.

Nonna and the Spanish dresses...

Eating a nice paella ;o)

Cheers...

Flamenco dancer...ole'...


Boqueria Market...incredible stuff...


Hmmmm ... 'jamon'...'prosciutto"... wonderful and delicious... we were eating them even for bfast!

Hmmmm... chocolate...

These fruits looked so beautiful they looked like plastic!


Sweets...


Las Ramblas...


Being tourists in the tourist bus...


Sleeping in the tourist bus...


Yay, I love my cousin...


I love this hammock...and my Tio Kikones, of courrrrrrrse!!! ;o)



Yara is 2 months old! (In May/09) ;o)










Mommy and Daddy had a cake to celebrate my 2 months b-day!











Happy Family!!!!

Yarita!!!!


Celebrating.....we love to celebrate EVERYTHING!!! ;o)


Hey, let me touch you, Yarita...


Oh NOOOOO, another girl in my life!! ;o)


Nonna Pina and Yara!

Playing with Tio Kiko....








In the bus again...


Listening to the explanations in whatever language you wanted...very cool bus...


Us in the bus...

The 2 famous landmarks at Port Olimpic. The Arts Hotel by Ritz Carlton is the one on the left.


Gran Casino de Barcelona.


Platja Nova Icaria and then Platja Bogatell









Parc de la Ciutadella


Built in 1888 the 'Castel dels Tres Dragons' was a medieval castle and it was used as a restaurant back then. It is now a museum, the Museo de Zoologia. It is famous for its amazing water fountain with dragons and horses, and the giant Mammoth statue. The architect was assisted by Antoni Gaudí.

There's a huge mammoth behind you, daddy....


WHAT???




Nap time...





Still at the 'Parc de la Ciutadella'...hey Nana, are you speaking French it seems? But we are in Spain here...eheheh




Me with rash all over my face...reactions from the vaccines that I took before we left for Europe...but still well and eating a piece of bread...


Celebrating again... that we had our family together, Kiko's promotion, job transfer, etc etc...we always find things to celebrate...ahahah...


Ohhhhh, how sweet... my grandparents rock and roll... ;o)

The Fragoso Family, The Martinez Family and The Santospirito Family here at Tio Kiko & Tia Euri's house...Thomas is here too with us (Kiko's great friend).


Taking a bottle from Yaya Anna!


Playing with Tio Thomas...





Yeah, I can play this weird instrument too... I have my own little one...



Sagrada Familia...beautiful...



At a park with Nana...

At the same park with Mamma...

We found some Colombian dancers that day at that park...


Walking around...



Our bella Yara!

Yara and her grandpa Arturo.

Luca with a lovely hat...actually it was a net bag from some oranges...

The Martinez and The Fragoso Grandparents...

Again with Kiko...can you tell Yara was sleeping when we decided to take this photo?

I had vomited all over myself here so Tio Kiko was trying to wash me off with a power hose...




Yarita changing diapers...

Building in front of the apartment that we were staying on Sants St....it's part of the city hall.

Sants... very busy street with LOTS of shops one after the other for miles...

Tio Kikones is so cool...

Tia Lolo and Yara!



Sweet cheeks!






Oooohhhhhhhh, I got my grandpa's harmonica!!!! Nice....

Playing with Nana and Neno in bed... I loved it!
Day before we left Spain to go back to Italy...






Oh Oh...little bit of crossed eyes there but that's OK, she's beautiful in any way...

Back to Italy with Andrea and Samuele...and Daddy! ;o)

My Madrina Gabriella is so nice to me...

Daddy and Samuele...

A cake for me....soooooo good....

We celebrated my 1st b-day in Italy 3 months later with Daddy's family...



Out for dinner....

I fell asleep....


Padrino Angelo, Mamma and Nonna....


Samu is feeding me here...

Me, Samuele and Andrea...






Watching Samu's basketball game.... GO SAMUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!! ;o)











In the playpen...they call it "box" in Italy... I stayed there quite a bit...my Nonna did not like me to go crawling on the floor...

Luca got Scarlet Fever while in Europe... big time rash here...


Scarlet Fever cheeks...poor little guy ;o(


I had to....ahahahah...an old man's undies across from us blowing in the wind...ahha...so funny and so typical...

The condo area where Nonna lives...



Back here again...

Nonna liked to see how much I eat... like a real Italian... ;o)

Andrea with a ladybug on his face... where did that come from??


Yum yum.... Italian McDonald's...MUCH better than ours...

They even have shrimp, brie cheese and something with spinach and parmesan cheese... so good!

McDonald's in Torino...

Beep beep... get outta my way...

Am I in this "box" once again?????



Being blessed at church....

Praying at church...




Nice mountains... still with snow...

May 25th... Mommy's b-day... ;o)

Yummy.... this cake was AMAZING!







Thank you everyone for all the happy b-day wishes!!! I had a wonderful day in Italy...


Sasa' and Andrea in the car...

Me with Zia Pina Amato...

In here another time...at least I have a break stick now...


Walking around with Samu...


Me with Zia Pina and Daddy's cousins Marisa & Irene...







During Andrea's beautiful dance performance....he did so well.... Congrats!! ;o)




Us on June 1st walking around and enjoying downtown Torino... The next day Luca and I returned to the States.