The Brown Brick Road

Capturing our adventures one photo at a time...

Italy – Venice

Day 2 in Venice! We had the best guide take us all around the city. I don’t think any of us actually knew her name the entire time but she was very informative, interesting, and entertaining! She was also about as tall as Samantha!

We toured all through the Doge’s Palace and St. Mark’s Basilica…

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These guys were lucky they didn’t get permanently locked up for littering!

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Lots of pics from the Palace…

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After lots of touring we had some good pizza and the boys discovered the joys of European Fanta!

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That afternoon we walked around…

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We saw some of our favorite sites…

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and maybe made another stop into Gucci! When in Rome…or Venice, right?!

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We obviously got more gelato too!

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That night we enjoyed a drink at the hotel…

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Unfortunately my drink ended up in my lap! But, I got cleaned up and we still had a nice dinner at Ristorante Principessa…the food was ok but the Fanta was two thumbs up!

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A day well spent in Venice!

Father’s Day

Happy Father’s day to the best around…

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I don’t know what we’d do without you but I’m certain we wouldn’t have our taxes done or the garage clean! Thanks for taking such good care of us. We’re the luckiest!!! We love you, Dad!!

The lake

Over Memorial Day weekend we got invited to head to the lake with some very generous friends. We had the absolute best time! The weather was perfect, we had a lobster dinner at Willow Point, the boys played golf at Wicker, the girls played tennis, and the kids tubed until they couldn’t tube anymore!

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Now that is how you do the lake! We were missing Maxwell but he wasn’t missing us. He got invited to go down to 30A for the weekend and had a great time at the beach!

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A great Memorial Day weekend all around!

Telluride day 4

Last day, best day! We started bright and early on another bluebird day!

Maxwell wanted to try and land a jump he had unintentionally done the day before…he gave it a good effort!

But no luck.

We then tackled some moguls…well, they tackled some!

Maxwell tried the jump one more time…and gave it a great effort…but crash.

It was a great day on the mountain! We thankfully got a few clouds in the afternoon that kept the snow from getting too slushy so we got a full day in!

That afternoon the kids went to the park area and all got some good jumps in!

This was also the first year that Spencer and Samantha skied with poles…and both of them managed to drop a pole from the lift! ha!

Thankfully both poles were fairly easily retrieved! We skied until late afternoon and made it back to the condo happy and injury free!

That night we had dinner in town at Smuggler’s at the recommendation of our friend, Ashley. It was excellent!

We had an uneventful flight home on Thursday. Thankful for an amazing week away with my favorite people!

Telluride day 3

Tuesday we got up and out the door ready for a full day!

Someone was sinking fast mid-morning but all she needed was a little snack at the top of the mountain!

The sun was shining but the snow was also pretty slushy. We all decided to skip lunch and ski until mid-afternoon and call it quits a little early. The boys went off on their own to do a few runs and head back while Robert and I took Samantha to hit up some more blues – she wasn’t ready to call it quits quite yet!

Samantha took on the moguls of the double blues with no problem! Sammy Shredder for sure!

We then headed back to the condo to meet up with the boys and headed into town for a late lunch, early dinner in Telluride. We finally got the Brown Dog Pizza we couldn’t get the other night!

We then shopped around Telluride a bit…

We then headed back to the condo where I fought off a migraine all night. No fun. A lazy end to a good day!