Umbria, for a week

Today we started our week vacation in Italy, partly to celebrate Alexandra’s birthday, partly to get to an area of Europe we’d not been before, and to have some fun with Nana & Papa.  But that darn volcano messed everything up.  Cancelled flights, another week of uncertainty, and finally we are on our way. 

However, we didn’t count on awful weather from Munich to follow us South!!  We arrived at our beautiful estate to clouds & cold, but it finally stopped raining & the girls could run crazy outside… We split the drive up into 2 days, left Munich last night after school & spent the night in Bolzano – apparently a very German, Northern Italy town – but we didn’t actually see any of the town because we just wanted to get as south as possible…

The girls went crazy when they saw the lawn, the pool, playhouse & swing, and even with the clouds there was a bit of sunshine for a while!!

Tomorrow it is supposed to be much warmer…