Sufficient Grace

This week we were still hanging out in the hotel, before I get too redundant let me make it known that we continued to "hang out" in the hotel for 8 weeks  - ahh! Anyway, it was starting to get hot, and the air conditioning was not working in the hotel, and had yet to be "turned on" for the season in any other place, so we were sweating 24/7. We decided to rent a van (even tho it was extremely pricey) so we could visit potential houses, and maybe take an adventure, but mostly so we could have the AC blowing in our faces even for just a few minutes. We played at the park, walked for gelato, again, and went on an adventure to see a castle about an hour away. Scaligeri is a castle from the 13th century, mostly surrounded by water in Sirmione - on the southern bank of Lake Garda in Northern Italy. Lake Garda was stunning, and the castle was really neat. We walked a ton, played in the lake, got more gelato and headed back "home". Here is a video compilation of

Our time here in Italy is coming to an end, and as it does I am hoping to take some time to look back. I want to document some of our everyday life and adventures over the past two years. This is a glimpse of our first week here in Italy,  getting over jet-lag and travel sickness, spending endless hours in the hotel, meandering around the base, walking to get pizza and gelato for my birthday, and taking the bus to explore downtown Vicenza for the first time.   Watch this video of our first week in Italy: