Day 2: Last Day in Madrid

Luca: This is us in front of the park.

Nico: We went on a boat.

Luca: We saw a lot of fish and turtles, but mom got scared because the fish kept breaching up.

Luca: That is me and dad rowing a boat. 

 Nico: Only dad was rowing the boat.

Luca: I meant I was in the boat.

Nico: That is me and Luca rowing the boat.

Luca: That is when I REALLY rowed the boat.

Nico: That is me eating a banana popsicle called a Jungly.

Luca: Junglys are like bananas because you eat the top off the peel and then you peel it just like a banana. But you can eat the peels. 

Luca: That is us in front of a  museum with a lot of creepy pictures. It was called the Prado.

Nico: I kind of liked a picture that was in there that had a picture of a lady who was going to take a bath in the lake but she didn't want to take her clothes off because she didn't want them to know she was pregnant. 

Luca: There were also vultures and eagles attacking men.

Nico: Speaking of vultures and eagles attacking people, there was one with a boy named Titus who was strapped to a rock and his guts were being picked out by a vulture.

Luca: There was a god named Saturn and he was very scary because he ate all his babies. But I really liked Jupiter because he was the only son he didn't kill. I liked Jupiter because he actually killed Saturn and I did not like Saturn.

Nico: Those are three creepy faced ladies and they really scared me.

Luca: I told you Saturn was scary!

Nico: That is us dipping things that are fried pieces of dough called churros and we are dipping them into chocolata, which is chocolate.

Luca: I think the churros were better with chocolate.

 Luca: This was a huge fish market and there was a huge monkfish!
Nico: And that giant thing that is opening its mouth up to you is the monkfish.

Nico: That is some sea urchin and that's what Luca ate.

Luca: The urchin was very good.

Luca: This is a very cute shelter dog that we saw but we couldn't take him home.

Nico: Us and mom wanted to take him home but dad said we couldn't.

Luca: He gave me a kiss on my leg.

Luca: That is a square where we saw Spider Man and a Rainbow Goat there.

Nico: Those are some hot dogs from dinner. And that is blood sausage.

Luca: I liked the hot dogs the best.

Nico: The blood sausages and the hot dogs were very good. 

 Luca: These are some chili peppers with really good salt.

Nico: And mom really liked the salt. I think she liked the salt the most.

Nico: That is Luca and he has some tapa and if you don't know what tapa is, it is bread with anything you like on it.

Luca: This tapa was baby eels. They were good.

Luca: That is the king and queen's home.

Nico: We did see their house but we didn't get to meet them.

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Luca: I'm great. I'm sorry to say that this is the last full day of Madrid.

Nico: I"m very sorry to say that. But wait, don't leave our website because there is another city to come!

Luca: We have Lisbon and North Carolina and that's when the real fun happens.

Day 1: Madrid, Part Two (July 21, 2016)

Nico: That is a church we saw from a taxi driving from the Madrid airport to our Madrid apartment.

Luca: You probably already know, but back in Part 1 we were in the Rome airport, We got on the airplane and we flew to Madrid and a taxi picked us up from the Madrid airport and drove us over to that church. The children on the plane were so misbehaved, they were screaming and I really did not like them. I even had a hard time playing Kindle. Not a hard time but I kept failing at all the games.

Luca; Now, if you read Part 1 (which you really should have, I don't want you to be scratching your head), you know that after that background is the part you are hungry for. These were some yummy sandwiches. My favorite one was an omelette one because it was so yummy. Everyone loved it. 

Nico: And, lunch was very good but very good lunch is not the only super duper good food. There is more to come at the end...

 Luca: Our dinner place (I'm giving you a sneak peek). I'll just say that the room there was very cool.

Nico: We went to a fountain called Plaza Espana. We got popsicles and all sorts of good things like that.  And, this is not what I was telling you about earlier that was very good. It's something different.

Luca: After we left this park, it took a very very very stinking long time to find dad.

Luca: This is the cool dinner place I was talking about. The only problem was that it was very crowded and loud. I liked it because it was very cool. It was cool because there was upstairs and downstairs, which I really liked, and very cool music playing, and very yummy stuff there.

Nico: Kids, you don't have to listen to this because it's more fun for grownups, but there was very good food as Luca told you, and also we got to walk around all over places getting food and drinks and we got to go up and down the stairs, and we even sat down at a very good spot. Mom and Dad kept going to get different things so we had to protect our spots.

Luca: Don't worry kids, I actually don't think this is just for grownups, you might also enjoy it. If you want to see this place, you should go! So remember, don't get bored.

Nico: Oh yeah. And also kids, this is when it gets funner for you.\

Luca: It was always fun for kids.

Nico: If you see that green thing highlighted that says "Marke" don't worry, they know how to spell it in Spain. It really says Market but we couldn't get the T in the picture. And also, it says Aperol Spritz. Kids, if you don't know what that is, it's a type of drink. If you don't like bitter tastes, I don't suggest you try it. And also, I don't even suggest you try too much of it, it could make you drunk. If you don't know what drunk is, that means you drank too much wine and you do silly things like pulling the fire alarm and falling down.

Luca: I think it's sweet and that your mom will know what it is (if you're a kid).

Day 26: The Last Day Tiny Bit of Rome, Part One

Luca: That is me drinking from an aquafir. I felt sad because it was my last time ever drinking from an aquafir until I come back.

Nico: It was very sad to leave Rome. Rome was very fun.

 Luca: I am sorry but this is the last little bit of the day in Rome. But, hold on to your seats because we will have a whole new blog from Madrid.
Nico: Our Madrid blog will be very fun. As fun as it was in Rome.
Luca: A lot more people speak English in Madrid, but I thought more people would speak English in Rome. There's also a lot of good food in Madrid.
Nico: And now is when we tell you that...
Luca: For those of you that are hungry for that, we'll first have to tell you about the backgrounds.

Day 25: Sushi Day/Not Sushi Day/The last full day in Rome

Luca: That is a view from a building called the UW Rome Center. The Rome Center is where mom teaches her students. 

Nico: The Rome Center is pretty.

 Nico: We were walking to the Pantheon which is a building that has a lot of famous arts in it and a dome that never closes. When we were walking there we saw a little kitty cat.

Nico: There was this thing called the Trevi Fountain. And the last day you're in Rome you're supposed to grab a penny and throw it over your shoulder into the Trevi fountain. 

Luca: You throw the coin in and wish to go back to Rome again.

Luca: We ate lunch. We all got delicious foods. It was a very yummy lunch. I got grouper, mom got chicken liver pasta, dad got veal with peas and Nico got mozzarella balls.

Nico: That is us at our last dinner. We had a very delicious dinner and the next picture is the picture of our dinner.

Nico: Delicioso!

Luca: That is our dinner.

Nico: Delicioso, if you don't know what that means, is delicious.

Luca: That is us in front of the River. 

Nico: Tiber River!

Nico: That's us in front of the Tiber River with mom.

Luca: That is the Tiber River.

Nico: It is very pretty and all those lights are little tents with things that people sell in them.

 Nico: That's us getting gelato, which is ice cream.

Luca: We got ice cream and drinks there.

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Luca: I'm sorry to say that this will be the last full day of our blog. Also I am great.
Our last full day was great.
Nico: Tomorrow will be a half day, and blah bloo blah.

Day 24: Pizza Day

Nico: We ate pizza. 

Since it's the last few days,here are some pictures of our apartment in Trastevere.

Luca: That is our door. It leads to our apartment.

Nico: That is the place in front our house. It is the Piazza.

It is Piazza Giuditti Tavani Arquati.

Luca: This is in our building. We have have to walk up four flights of stairs to get to our apartment.

Luca: This is the inside of our apartment.

 Nico: That is the entrance to our apartment.

 Luca: That is the living room to our apartment.

Nico: That is us jumping on our bed!

We always put on the Air Conditioner.

Luca: That is our kitchen. I don't have any feelings for it.

Nico: As you can see, there's a little window there, but it doesn't have any glass inside of it. The window leads into the living room.

Nico: That is a room that we moved away from since it was too loud with people screaming.

Luca: This is more of our kitchen. 

Nico: There is also our trashcans which are kind of fancy.

Luca: I don't think they're fancy. It showed what to put in each of them. 

Nico: There was a lot of things that say how to sort trash in Italy.

Luca: That is our bathroom. I don't really like it because it always smells like sewage in there. 

 Nico: If you see that tiny sink, it's not our sink. That's really just our butt washer. I used it to wash my hands.

Nico: That's mommy and daddy's bedroom and it's very pretty.

Luca: That is the entrance to mom and dad's room. 

Nico: If you see that thing in the corner, that's actually our dryer. It's not a human dryer. All you have to do is put your wet clothes from the washing machine on it. That's totally not like in Seattle.

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Nico: We had a piano in our room but we didn't play it. We had stuffies.
Luca: We had a very cool air conditioner but it got too cold very early.  I felt like our time in Italy was so short. I really liked our apartment and one of our stuffy dogs named Brutus got lost under the bed so we almost couldn't bring him to our next trip. We had a group dinner with our students and it was the last day of school for mom's students. But I actually to be honest didn't really like the food.
Nico: I liked the students. They were fun and funny which I already said in our third story.
Luca: But I sometimes get overwhelmed because they are always yelling.
Nico: Especially one named Chase.
Luca: Our trip to Rome was very fun.