Day 23: No Picture Day

Luca: Today mom went to work. I am sorry that we have no pictures.
Nico: In the morning, mom went to work and we hung out with dad. Then we went to Roscioli. Then we had pizza lunch with dad. Later that night Hamed got sick by cheese. It was blue cheese.
Luca: The pizza lunch was yummy.

Nico's Three Most favorite things about Italy:
1. I like the pizza here.
2. I like the cities, except that they are dirty.
3. We don't have to starve while walking in the sun since there's aquafirs.

Luca's three most favorite things about Italy:
1. There are aquafirs.
2. There are yummy restaurants.
3. Our hotel is nice except that there is a stinky fart smell when we open the door.

Luca's three favorite memories from going to Italy:
1. Seeing our apartment in Rome.
2. Going to Lucca
3. Eating pizza

Nico's three favorite memories from Italy:
1. The aquafirs are good and fresh.
2. There's many cool apartments.
3. I like the AC.

Day 22: Back to Rome Day

Luca: That is us riding on a surrey. I'm sorry I'm in your face so you can't see.

Nico: Everyone tried to stick their faces in. You can only see half my face and no eye and nose and mouth from daddy.

In the surrey, mommy and daddy had to pedal us up this hill so we could drive on top of a wall.

Luca: This is us next to a welcome to Lucca sign.

Nico: It was really just a store but it was a sign in front of the store. You can see the boy with the red tank top-that's Luca.

Nico: These are some pics of the city of Lucca.

Lucca is the best city in Italy.

Luca: It looks like we were inside my head.

Nico: Because we exited out of two holes and they looked like two nostrils.

Luca: But with no boogers.

Luca: That is us in front of our train.

Nico: That was our last train in Italy, Sadly.

Nico: Now, back in Rome we got some cool new bracelets that have our names on them. And we have to wear then for our whole lives, and never take them off.

Luca; If you're reading this and you're one of my classmates, I'll give you a warning that I'll be wearing this and my Luca shirt so you don't think I'm everything Luca.

Luca: that is us eating at a restaurant called Popi Popi and the top picture is the menu for it. The bottom picture is Nico doing something really weird to me.

Day 21: Train to Lucca

Nico: That is Luca reading a book on his tablet and me doing my summer homework pack on the train to a city called Lucca.

Luca: I like the trains in Italy and the train to Lucca is a double decker.

Nico: We stayed in a palace! It was very fancy there and the lights turned on automatically.
Luca: There was a king bed there that I really wanted to sleep in and I got mad at Nico because he said it would be too big for me.
Nico: But luckily dad was nice enough to share it with you.

Luca: That is a church.

Nico: That's us standing in front of a sign that's right next to the wall that covers the city of Lucca. If you could zoom in, you can see it says City di Lucca--that's how you say it in Italian.

 Luca: We saw a strange bird when we were walking by a river. So we went on a bridge to get to it and before we could get there it flew right up to us on the bridge.

Nico: That's Luca drinking wine.
Luca: I'm actually allowed to drink wine in Italy.

Nico: The top two pictures are what we ate, and the last one is us eating dinner. It was a fun dinner.

Luca: That dinner was yummy and a musician named Neil Young was playing and me and Nico got to dance in front of the crowd. 

Nico: Everyone was watching us dance and mom and dad took 20 videos of us dancing.

Luca: That is us dancing.

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Luca: Lucca was my favorite place. I wish we could stay there more than one night.
Nico: I love Lucca but at least we got to ride in a surrey the next morning before we left.
Luca: I'm great.

Day 20: Gondola Day/Full Day in Venice

Luca: Our mom tried to sit on the toilet but the toilet seat fell off.

Nico: She was going pee pee.

Nico: That is us in front of the water.

Luca: We are in front of a canal.

Luca: That's us next to a canal again.

Nico: That's us next to another lake close to a piazza. That day was the day there were a bunch of cardboard flames in the piazza.

Nico: That's a famous picture that is on a big church in the piazza.

Luca: That is a picture on top of a famous church.

Nico: That is a pink cat with only brown skin except its face and black hair. It wears clothes and stands on its hind legs. 

Luca: That kitty is named Nico.

Nico: Just like me.

Luca: we just found that cat and he does not speak human or Cute-ish. (Cyteish)

Nico: Cute-ish is really just baby talk. It's not just gah gah goo goo and wah wah doo dah.

Luca: I still really hate cuteish.

Luca: These are some little fishes, octopuses, eels, and crabs. It is a fish market.

Nico: As you can see, there are some little flower shaped octopus tentatcles, and on the next picture there's even funnier shaped fish.

 

Nico: See? I told you--ghost fish, right?
Luca: These fish do look like ghosts but they also look a tiny bit like sharks.

 Luca: I ate this octopus with red sauce that wasn't tomato sauce in a cup and it was really good.
Nico: My armpits felt sticky there because we had a big dance party and I bumped into the cat. And the cat meowed.

Luca: That is me on the gondola. 

NIco: A gondola is a boat. That's a picture of me that is very poorly taken.

Luca: Wow, Nico you look like you have a serious stinkeye.

Nico: It is because the wind was blowing very hard.

Nico: That's my hip in front of the ocean, I don't know why mom took that.

Luca: That is me eating a delicious lunch. I really missed chicken wings but this was the only place I could get chicken wings. 

NIco: This is a cool sink at the same place. You step on a blue panel or a red panel instead of pulling up the lever on the sink. If you don't know what a lever is, it's pretty much a metal bar attached to something that you pull up for a reaction from the thing it is connected to.

Luca: I thought that was cool.

Luca: That is us eating merengues. I got a licorice one and Nico got a strawberry.

Nico: Strawberry in Italian is Fregola. Mommy was going to the bathroom.

Luca: These are some foods. I got to drink a little bit of prosecco there.

Nico: Those are some breads that we got on a plate. We got to go sit outside on a big bridge and eat then on the bridge.

Nico: Guess what this wall is named after? A toilet!

Luca: That is a gelato place called GelatiNico. I got a licorice popsicle there.

Nico: Gelateria!

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Luca: That day in Venice was fun.

Day 19: Venice Day

Nico: That is my feet standing at an aquafir. I don't know who took that weird picture.

Nico: That is what I ate for breakfast. It was a big mound of cream with even more cream inside, There was a cookie on top but I already ate it. You can see the pressed down spot of where the cookie was.

 Luca: That is a croissant that Dad got. I liked it because it had a bunch of cream inside of it.

Nico: That is a bakery we went to with the teacher Theresa who was hanging out with us that morning.

Luca: At that bakery, we got merengues. One was mint, one was lemon, and one was strawberry. There was also a white one that we didn't know but I think it tasted like vanilla.

Nico: Yeah me too.

Luca; I ordered a tripe sandwich and the top picture is my tripe sandwich.

I just wanted you guys to know that the thing inside the sandwich bun was tripe.

Nico: MMMM HMMM.

Nico: After that business, we went to the train station and we got to a city in Italy called Venice.

Luca: The train arrived to Venice was very long. Also, when we got to the train station we had to take a boat to our apartment.

Nico: And in Venice instead of using cars there's boats and you have to walk everywhere unless there is a far distance. If it's far, you have to take a boat. There's no such thing as a car in Venice.

Luca; That is us on a boat.

Nico: That is the boat we were talking about that goes to our apartment.

Nico: Unusually, in Italy it is usually hot but here in Venice it is very cold, which is unusual. And, that is us in the piazza. And, me and Luca liked to call it pigeon city because there is a lot of pigeons in the piazza.

Luca: I did not like pigeon city because only pigeons were flying at me.

Luca: That is my pizza. It was delicious! I'm great.

Nico: It had seafood on it. I got spaghetti and it was delicious!

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Nico: I had fun in Venice, but it was surprisingly my least favorite city because it was very cold and the apartment was very dirty and the toilet seat fell off when mommy was going pee pee.

Day 18: Colosseum Day

Luca: That is me and Nico watching a student named Chase play Pokemon Go.

Nico: We were at a gym area, where you can fight some Pokemon against the pokemon you have. He was playing Spearow, Zubat and Squirtle.

 Nico: That is the entrance to the Colosseum. The Colosseum is way long ago when people called Gladiators used to fight animals and other gladiators.
Luca: They mostly had cats, but also ostriches and elephants were there.

 Luca: That is the outside of the Colosseum. The Colosseum was actually a little bit dirty.
Nico: Don't worry if that picture looks pretty bad, because I took that picture. Mom and Dad took pictures that look way better, it's just that me and Luca didn't want to spread out too far.

Nico: That is where the gladiators used to fight. At the edge you can see a little field, all the rest used to be like that except it fell down. The part that is still there is now just for people to jump around and play. We couldn't get tickets to get on there.

Luca: In the olden times, the arena would be a lot less pleasant. It would be louder and there would be blood there.

Nico: And there would be sand there.

 Luca: That is mostly just a picture of Nico looking at the arena and I'm the other guy with the hat.
Nico: Luca is the guy that's lower because dad's picking me up and showing me something. That's his giant arm, don't think it's mine in a different sleeve.

Nico: That is Luca sitting on a bench at the Colosseum. As you can see, the Colosseum is pretty broken.

Luca: I'm not sitting down there for a picture. I was resting because there was a lot of walking.

Luca: That is Nico slamming a gate next to him at the Colosseum.

Nico: And also I was pretending to be a gladiator. I was trying to make it look like I was holding a sword behind my back but it didn't come out so good.

Luca: I don't think Gladiators took pictures.

Nico: That is the Forum. The Forum is a big wall that has ancient pictures of it.

Luca: The Forum is a place right next to the Colosseum. You can see a very beautiful view.

Luca: That is a church or something. I'll just call it a building.

Nico: That is a building that was behind the tourguide. We stopped so she could tell us about the forum. She said it was more like a temple.

Nico: That is what we ate. We ate with two of the teachers--one's name is Hamed (we told you about him earlier) and the other one is named Theresa. We got mini sandwiches. I got one with cheese and Luca got anchovies and capers.
Luca: That sandwich was so good that I decided to get another one.
Nico: I got another one too but a different type because there was something in mine that tasted like chili peppers.

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Luca: That night, we had a student named Chase as our babysitter. We told you about him earlier.
Nico: Our babysitter Emma was supposed to come over except she was sick so she couldn't come.
Luca: That day was very fun.