Jun 2007

favorite palindrome of napolean and lutheran high's doc sheaffer... we kayaked around this beautiful island off the coast of tuscany for a few days. the water was amazing and paddling fantastic. italian families and hundreds of their strollers and two year olds swamped the streets (maybe the casting call for the movie 'look who's talking 3?') italian families apparently liked this place more than napolean, who escaped after less than a year.

had a great time in portugal visiting the algarve beaches, lisbon, and the -made entirely from bones- chapel in evora. we had a fantastic day visiting the castles, underground passages, and caves of sintra outside of lisbon.

met up with newlyweds adam and travis for the san juan festival in porto -- little old ladies and two year olds on their dads shoulders all wacking each other with plastic squeaky hammers -- followed by the best fireworks display any of us had ever seen. laura even hit a policeman on the head... would love to post the picture, but laura also lost the camera and all the pix from this portion of the trip. kirks nephew is now having fun with the hammer... ask his dad how much the whole family loves being wacked by a squeaky plastic hammer...

and kirk and laura and erin... neighbor wilson joined us for some awesome shenanigans around the emerald isle... hiking and biking and guinness, oh my.

said farewell to the usa for a few months with a great weekend visiting laura in the big apple. met the newest michello and had a great time running around the city looking for famous chefs... got bumped off our flight leaving laguardia so got two free tickets and a two hour earlier arrival into dublin.