| :: September & October 2016 :: |
Driving home. Switzerland always beautiful. 2 October 2016 |
| I love the vacation house. I love it in every season but I really love it in the Autumn We visit at least once a month and a trip highlight is visiting my dad's tree. I love the spot and I love the ritual. Thankfully - deer don't like walnut leaves and no wild pigs have tried to dig it up. We have created a lovely circular stone area around the base. I pick wild flowers on the way up and leave them. It's doing great and it is a thoughtful place for me to think Omar. Joe had to study and so I asked Baci to take a walk with me. He hates doing anything with just me and not Joe. |
| I had a quick business to Barcelona, which I love because I get to meet my beloved colleagues. Shanah tova! Happy New Year! |
| It was wonderful to help Sin celebrate her birthday! A lovely morning run to kick off the festivities. Later a visit to the spa and then a Thai lunch. 30 September 2016 Omar read this to me when I was a little girl. We read it to Avalon & Zaven and now I get to read it to my cutie patootie Goddaughter Lilly. Views of the charming German countryside - running and taking pictures |
Celebrating our 28th Wedding Anniversary - I am so grateful for this guy. Lunch & views in Florence, Italy 8 October 2016 (But our really real anniversary is on the 5th) Avalon is doing great - really enjoying his job, location and doing stand up comedy. He is funny, but who knew he would be so brave. Zaven is loving uni and is coming home for his first visit next week, I am/we are so excited. We will spend time together and go to the vacation house and Alba Truffle festival. Yay, Leonetti boys! Autumn is sweet, we'll call it Fall... RHCP |
One day a year my boobs are just not big enough. Cannstatter Wasen | Oktoberfest, Stuttgart 29 & 30 September 1 & 2 October Stuttgart, Germany |
| Zaven is home for a visit from uni. Fribble is so weird and probably on some sort of autistic cat spectrum but look at him trying to literally burrow into Z's neck. The animals (and we) are so happy! 13 October 2016 |
| Our annual Alba Truffle Festival visit. We got to see our most beloved local wine makers. One of which is Elisa Drocco of Drocco Wine. We tasted lots of amazing wine and cheese. 14 October 201 Alba, Italy6 |
| The vacation house and hunting for chestnuts. 16 October 2016 |
| Visiting my dad's tree - Baci herding us. It is doing perfect - happy, protected, sunny place, happy leaves with no pigs or deer nibblin'. I love this spot. 16 October 2016 Serole, Italy |
| Zaven planned to go to a concert Friday night in Milan so we decided to visit Wes Anderson's Bar Luce at Fondazione Prada. "Don't point that gun at him. He is an unpaid intern." The Life Aquatic Darling & retro - with great aperitivi & cocktails. And of course we had to do the touristy thing and get a photo on the gold wall of Prada. Milan, Italy 13 October 2016 |
The village and views are worth the €1.30 funicular ride to the top |
| Autumn's sweet, we'll call it Fall. RHCP I love this time of year. The sun and the colors, amazing. We had a wonderful and relaxing four day weekend (off of work and Joe's Ed.D) in Serole - we took full advantage of the local wine and food events. We recently paid the vacation house off - we love this house and love that it is really and truly ours now. 1 November 2016 Mondovi, most darling hilltop town in Piemonte, annual Truffle Festival 31 October 2016 We are flying Zaven home for Thanksgiving, another long and lovely weekend at the vacation house |
| Lovely run & views Serole, Italy |
| Go Wine Event Gorgeous evening to stroll through Alba meeting local wine and food producers. 29 October, 2016 |
