Pre-Trip

Just got the bags for travel. Testing them out.

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Cooper getting comfortable thinking he's going too.

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Here we go in the plane to Europe!

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Our first Tram/Train ride from the airport to Milan city central.

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Settling down in our new apartment for 10 days.

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DAY TRIP: 2/13/06 to Genova, Italy & to Torino, Italy

Our first offical train ride, and we're going to Genova, a coastal seaport town in Italy.

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Here's a picture of us on the many steep steps of Genova. There sure were a lot of them.

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Here's another shot of us on the steps of Genova.

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Here's a picture of us at the University of Genova.

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A shot of us on the 2nd level at the University.

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Another shot of us on the 2nd level at the University.

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Yet another shot of us on the 2nd level at the University.

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Here's a picture of Boone at the waterfront soaking up the sun.

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We're in front of the only place that wouldn't let us in! So I later pooped in front of it to show them how mad I was that I couldn't see the otters or fishies!

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Here we are at the Olympic city of Torino. We took our turn in line getting a picture in front of the Olympic rings.

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Here's a shot of us in front of NBC Olympics set.

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A funny "scoop your pet's poop" sign we saw. Thankfully Mom and Dad do pick ours up.

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CITY TOUR: on 2/15/06. Duomo Cathedral & Castle Sforzesco (or fortress as mom calls it), and of course shopping for US!

We're in front of the big doors to the Duomo Cathedral, No they won't let us in either... But we got to sniff all around it.

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Shopping! We're in front of the rich shops. Milan's Glass Living Room as the area is called.

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A bigger pic of the shopping area

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Kenzie shopping at Prada

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Boone at Louis Vuitton

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Check out our bling that Mom and Dad bought us. Italian Leather Collars. We are so stylish!

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Water fountain in front of the Castle.

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Backside of the castle. Royalty becomes us!

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Just leaving our footprints.

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DAY TRIP: 2/16/06. Venice, Italy & a train ride to Bologna, Italy and back to Milan

Ying/Yang on the train.

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On the streets of Venice.

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We're watching the gondolas go by below.

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Singing Italian songs as we are on the bridge.

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OLYMPICS: 2/18/06

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MONACO: on 2/20-22/06

We're riding to Monaco!

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Arrival into Monaco, at the Train staion

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Checking out the view from our wonderful room

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Nightime in Monaco, in front of the Casino.

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Another funny Dog sign in French

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Breakfast in Bed for us, well at least in our room.

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The view of the city looking from the Princes's Palace hill

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Another funny dog sign.

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Load the cannons, we're under attack! Ok our paws won't allow that to happen...

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View back towards our hotel room, and yatch harbor.

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Can anyone hear me barking in the back, please bark back? A old auditorium

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Does this sign mean no Scotties allowed? I might need to put on another dog costume if so.

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TRAIN STOP: that became an overnighter: Barcelona, Spain: 2/23/06

The Imaginarium, they had doors just our size!
This was in the train station while we were waiting to board our train (the one that didn't let us on, meanies!)
Spain is not a good place for dogs, they charge us too much to ride their trains.

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CITY WALK: Velancia, Spain - 2/25/06

Chilling at a city wall: Torres de Quart

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The big picture with us in front of the 4 city walls.

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A wonderful plaza area, with many churches. We saw at least 3 wedding couples getting pics done, and peaked into a church to see another wedding going on. Saturdays must be the wedding nights! We even possed for other peoples photos here too, they must know cute when they see it!

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CITY WALK: Madrid, Spain - 2/28/06

We become one with the landscape at Retiro Park

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Panseying around

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Eternal Flame monument

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The city wall arches

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DAY TRIP: Segovia, Spain - 3/1/06

SNOW! We finally get to play in it!

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We are in the street, lapping up the local culture, see the Aqueduct behind us.

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Admiring one of the many beautiful chruches in this city

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Aqueduct.

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A smaller area of the Aqueduct

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BIG cathedral

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CITY WALK: Madrid, Spain - 3/4/06

Bank of Spain, and Museum of Post Office for the interpretation of the map

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THE RAIN IN SPAIN, brings out the umbrellas!
There was also another woman who jumped into our picture with us just after this photo and had her husband take a photo with us. Amazing that we are so damn cute!

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TRAVEL TRIP: Merida, Spain - 3/5/06

Well mom and dad couldn't get us into the other roman ruins in the city
(since they slept for an hour and a half, so the place closed...).
We had to make them find some place to take a picture of us. We found this great spot.

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CITY WALK: Lisbon, Torre De Belem near our place, Portugal photo shoot - 3/8/2006

We went for a walk around where we are staying today. Belem Neighborhood. It's where the president lives. His castle is in the background, the pink palace.

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Here we are in front of the guards by the Presidential Palace. They don't work nights or weekends as far as we can tell.

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Kenzie is chillin in the garden near the palace.
Do you see the guard in the background?

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We're at the Imperial Garden in front of the Muesum of Archeology and Marina. One area looks like a cathedral.

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Padaro Dos Descobrimentos or homage statue to Christopher Columbus and the explorers

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A look from the side.

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Does this look like we're in San Francisco?
The bridge and the cliff side.

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Torre de Belem: Cool ass looking castle.
Of course we didn't go in. Wheep, wheep.

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Another photo of us in front of the cool castle. We wish we could live there and watch birds fly by our window each morning

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The largest Pineapple in the world!

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A patriot wall by the fort next to the castle.
It had guards in front of it too that we wanted to see, but mom and dad said no.
We did stand for a photo for them instead while the guards were switching sides.

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CITY WALK: Lisbon, city center, Portugal photo shoot - 3/10/2006

We saw the New President of Portugal go by us.
He was inaugerated a few hours earlier,
this was his first time back to his new home/palace.
His royal horses went right past us.

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A neat niche we found on our long,
long, long, walk to the city center & Castle.

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We're thinking of becoming Catholic Dogs.

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The day before, this is where the President was sworn in.

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I'm getting pet by Fernando Pessoa, one of the most notable Portuguese authors of all time.
Kenzie is thinking about ordering a Portuguese coffee
@ A Brasileira cafe, founded in 1905.

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We would have eaten supper at these stone tables
back in the day!

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It speaks for itself

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The damn Peacocks kept checking us out.
We'd move, they'd move.
We'd walk away, they'd then RUN towards us.
Crazy birds. We finally we got away from them.

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At the Castle of St. George, we made mom and dad
walk down many steps just to take this photo for us.

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We're checking out the view.
Doesn't it look like San Francisco?

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They used to shoot arrows from here! Wow!

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Huge cross and Jesus at the top, just on the other side of the Lisbon "golden gate" bridge.
They won't let us get any closer, we just wanted to sniff it! This is a replica of Christ the Redeemer statue in Brazil.

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DAY TRIP: Sintra, Portugal - 3/11/2006

See that fort in the background!
We walked up to it, well sorta.
Ask mom and dad about it.

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The Queen's Garden @ Castle of Sintra.
This is as close to it as WE could get.
Mom and dad went in for us.

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ROAD TRIP: Isla Cristina, Spain - 3/12/2006

BEACH: PLAY, RUN, HAVE FUN!

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City walk 1: Sevilla, Spain - 3/13/2006

We decided that the best way to see the city
was by horsedrawn carriage.
The horse was our city guide!

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A city garden statue with a Lion on it.
It said it was from 1492!

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We can't go into a the Theater,
but we can stand in front of it!

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We are so popular over here, we had 2 people pose with us!

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City walk 2: Sevilla, Spain - 3/14/2006

We decided to see the Sevilla Cathedral from a different perspective than other tourists!

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Don't ya just think we're cute up here!

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We wanted to see it at night,
boy is it pretty.

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We both saw something else on each side of the column.

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What more can we say?

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Again, what else we can say.

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DAY TRIP: Algeciras, Spain & Straight of Gilbralter - 3/15/06

Look Ma, we're in Holland, or are we?
We were on our way to the Gilbralter,
so was that left or right at Toledo, Spain?

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I got up close and personal with the locals at the beach!

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Things got a little heated when they found out I'm foreigner.

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We chillin on the jetty, almost to Africa!

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Ahh, the rock of Gilbralter.

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We finally learned how to use the WATER FOUNTAIN!

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ROAD TRIP: Alhambra, Spain on our way to Barcelona - 3/16/06

We went to the Alhambra, near Granada, Spain
They won't let us in, so we went around it.

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We loved the landscaping, simple yet elegant

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We found a Canadian Senior group that was going in,
we snuck in with them to get these pics. Shhh, top secret!

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More from the inside. Just look at the bark-itecture!

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Finally, we get to stop and sniff the pansies.

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City tour: Barcelona, Spain - 3/17/06

Neat Museum we found, not to far from the
Mad house of a train station, Sants

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No fishies in the water fountain.

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Ahh, the birds eye view of the city

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Finally we get a break around here!

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We thought we'd test to see if the
building needed more towers on it.

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City tour: Nice, France - 3/19/06

We had a few days in Nice.
The only thing nice about Nice, is its name,
and the new friends Mom and Dad met on the way there!

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City Tour 1: Rome, Italy: 3/21/2006

Kenzie decided she needed to go window shopping.

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As we walked to the Coloseum, we walked by Plaza delle Esponsizioni

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Are they really protesting, physiotherapy?
Psychos!

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Roman ruins, no we didn't knock them over

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More locals, "excuse me, can you tell me how to get into the Coloseum?"

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Just chillin at the front gate!

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Wow, look at that. Parking just for us!

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The magnificent Coloseum.

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It seems to grow with each photo taken.

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Lucky for us the psychos allowed us to get this shot!

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Ahh to be as powerful as a Roman!

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Roman Ruins, up close and personal

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Wonder how many paws it took to build that arch?

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Is that suppose to be one of us?

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City Tour 2: Rome, Italy - 3/24/2006

Trevi Fountain, it's big!
Still no fishies.

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Pantheon, the outside, we look small.

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Pantheon, the holy inside!

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The fountain at the Pantheon

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Piazza Navona and its fountains

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Balancing act

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Roman River with St. Peter's in the background.

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Cool ass building next to the river!
Palazzo di Giustizia

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Castle Sant Angelo,
anyone up for hide and seek?

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These people were mimicking us!
I hope we don't look as silly!

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St. Peter's and the Vatican behind us.

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Link to what we saw today at the Vatican!

We decided to lay down and pray.
We found out it was a special ceremony,
they must have known we were coming.

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God are you listening up there?

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Hey Pope, can I be a Cardinal too?
I'm cute and fair.

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Can see the new Cardinals in the background?
Too bad, this lady interupted my bow to them!

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Good seats to see the Cardinal selection Ceremony.

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Pope can you see me, I'm in back!

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Mom being a good Catholic, annointed us with Holy water.

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Rome, the best city view. WOW!

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City walk: Taormina, Sicily - 3/28-29/06

We love our room, high style!

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Kenzie is birdwatching and listening to all the birds in the distance.
I'm watching the beauty from the bed and sniffing it all in.

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We went for a evening walk and came across this remark-bark-able view.

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Kenzie didn't see the locals that saw her!

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The city of Taormina Duomo church,
not as big as some we've seen, but nice.

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We saw the other horse statue spit water,
we investigate why this one doesn't.

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Ahh the city at dusk!
It took our tongues away.

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We decided to come back during the day,
since it was so pretty at dusk.

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We got to go to the Roman Ampitheater behind our hotel.

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That is Mount Etna behind us,
we had to keep a watchful ear out,
just in case she errupted.
She is active we were told.

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We thought we heard something, false alarm.

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What a view from here!
Long way down.

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More of the ruins, we had to explore ever inch of it.

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We met our first European Cousin today!
Chirro, the Sicilian Scottie!

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I'll make myself comfortable anywhere I can.

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Waiting for the train to Naples;
watching the big trains load onto a ferry boat to Sicily.

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Travel Stop: Amsterdam, Holland - 3/31/2006

Well since we only have a few hours in Holland,
this is as close as we could get
to the tulips.

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Are their more tulips out there mom?

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Buy Bye, see you in August!
Our last destination in Europe this leg of the trip!

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Why aren't they blooming yet?

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Yeah, I thought this was bulb blooming season!

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