Peggy sent an email! She said: “My time is short and my connection—she’s not a so good, so I have to be quick.” hehe… But she sent a pretty good update anyway. Plus, she sent some pictures! Here’s the report:
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As you can see, we made it. Rome was an awesome city. I would have liked to have spent several days there. Pescara is beautiful … that’s where we are right now. We visited another small town where my mother in law was born. It’s the town time forgot.
PICTURE ONE: Outside my father in laws condo.; on the balcony outside the bedroom; when you look to the right this is what you see (the Adriatic Sea) Gorgeous!
PICTURE TWO: Same balcony; when you look to the left you see snow covered mountains-AWESOME and BREATHTAKING!
PICTURE THREE: We ate at a really cool restaurant in the mountains overlooking the Adriac Sea. This is a picture of the view. The meal was HUGE! And they put pitchers of wine on your table like they do with water at home. You don’t ask for it, they just bring it. The fish we ate was deeelicious—fresh of course from the sea.
PICTURE FOUR: I forget what this is. I think it’s the Spotted Dick somewhere. I have several of these, but with this poor connection, I can’t send too many pictures. (Brad here – I gave Peggy a can of Spotted Dick Sponge Pudding before she left. She said she would take it with her and snap pictures of it in various locations. I don’t see it in this picture though.)
PICTURE FIVE: The beach at Pescara. The water is really blue.
PICTURE SIX: Check out this dresser in our room—note the bedroom door on the right for scale.
Please share with everyone. Have a good week—
Keep praying for us—-the drivers over here drive much worse than in New York.
Peggy
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Brad here again. I’ll put full sized pictures in the Middle School folder on the server at school if any school people want to view them.
Yay! An update from Peggy! That is just what I needed to help me get out the door today-thanks Internet-thanks Brad.
Now that’s my kind of dresser! I’d love the challenge of using that. Just think of how many clothes you could get into that thing… Hmmm…
Peggy, I’m glad you made it safely there and you’re having a good time. I hope you make it back safely as well!
I’m happy Peggy is safe, and I hardly hate her at all for being in such a gorgeous location. I’d be a lot more jealous if I hadn’t just watched a Doctor Who episode where all the statures are actually evil aliens who become alive as soon as you take your eyes off them.
Pitchers of wine. That’s my kind of country.
Joe the son, or Joe the husband? I’ve never seen either of them…
YAY for Peggy!!! How very awesome is that? 😀
Ewwww gross!!!!
If it’s the bedroom it better be Joe the husband!!!
Peggy – I’m so glad you didn’t need my survival kit. I’m also extremely jealous of the pitcher of wine thing – totally not fair!
You need to get your mind out of the gutter Miss Michele! I asked an innocent question and you turned it into incest – goodness gracious! 😉
You’re right Beth – I’ve been hanging around too long with my teacher friends!
Heh. Including Brad? 😉
Yep – especially him! Ha!
BTW Beth – you think your coconut cake was a disaster? Today I am snake-sitting for one of my students. After lunch the boy came in to get the mouse fetus (i.e. snake food 🙂 ha) and he mumbled something to me. I just nodded and went back to show Brad the snake. Well apparently the boy had asked if he could go heat up the mouse so his snake could eat it warm. Needless to say just a few second in the microwave proved to be disasterous! I haven’t had lunch yet – I think I’ll wait!
First, thanks Michele, for the shout out to your gross teacher friends-nice!
Second-I need to know if it was the top or bottom microwave in the faculty room-before I heat anything up.
Hey, now – the mouse fetus never left the bag, ladies – it’s not as if it truly EXPLODED all over in there or anything. Have no fear – your electronic appliances have not been sullied by body parts. (Enjoyed that clam chowder yet, Michele?)
…and yes, the snake enjoyed his first meal in a week, slowly but surely…by Class 7 we could see the lump about 3″ down where the mouse was by then…yum yum.
Thanks for snake-sitting, Mrs. Steppe. Tyler couldn’t have shared Cornelius the corn snake with us otherwise. What a great finish to our section on reptiles. Yee haw for teaching life science (or, in the case of the mouse fetus…).
Picture Four…I think I know what Peggy might have been describing now…hmmm…not a can of pudding, though…
he he he
[Anybody know the name of this fountain? They all look alike to me after a while. I can tell Buckingham in Chicago and that’s about it.]