The Legacy of Ancient Greece and Rome in Italy |
April 2, 3+ 
April 2 11:24am
April 2 10:15am Venice: chinese restaurant Loosely translated, sea city restaurant. Why you would be eating Chinese food in Venice, I have no clue. Familiarity I guess. So much delicious local food. Though, I can't imagine the Chinese food to be all that bad. It is, after all, Italy. Fresh seafood, produce. Can't be all bad.  Venice: lost in thought Statue of philosopher lost in thought. The man sitting at the base is just lost. |
April 2 12:05pm Venice: marketplace This is how the food gets to the market. |
April 2 12:06pm
April 2 12:14pm| Venice: roof tops A sudden urge to burst out in song and dance- with an English accent. Chim chimmeney. Chimm chimmeney. Chim Chim Chereee. |
April 2 2:02pm
April 2 2:13pm| Venice: piazza san marco Nancy poisoning pigeons in the park. Venice: piazza san marco: cafe florianNo matter how many of these cocktail florians I drink, I still don't feel like Hemingway. And the sketching skills deteriorated very quickly. |
April 2 2:19pm
April 2 2:19pm| Venice: piazza san marco: cafe florian Nothing like pigeon poo and air pollution to add patina to a building. Venice: piazza san marco: cafe florianWhen the band is playing, they add an extra charge to the bill. Needless to say, the band is almost always playing. |
 Venice: piazza san marco Birds in flight. Gave a fright. What a sight. Think I might, Need a bite. Such a plight. |
April 2 2:35pm
April 2 9:04pm VeniceSardines. And Venice's white polenta. |
April 2 9:04pm| Venice Scallops, with grilled white Venetian polenta. I think I see a pattern here. |
April 2 9:21pm| Venice Squid ink pasta. There really isn't a way to make this look better, but tasty. They made your teeth black for a while too. |
April 2 9:21pm| Venice Pasta ala vongole. Large tasty juicy vongoles at that. |
April 2 9:50pm| Venice Assorted seafood. With white polenta. |
April 2 9:50pm| Venice Entree of fried baby items. Baby artichokes and baby soft shell crabs. Delicious. Also with some grilled white polenta. |
April 2 10:20pm | Venice Tiramisu. Surprised there wasn't white polenta in there. |
 Venice: novicento hotel The Pope died while I was packing. |
April 3 3:17am| Venice: airport Sunrise at the Venice airport. I believe we were the first ones to arrive there. Nothing was open. Not even a Hot Dog on a Stick. |
April 3 5:59am
Wallet| Milan: airport Half an hour to our connecting flight, plus a pocketful of loose euro coins, when we suddenly realized our stash did not include any Italian leather goods. Sadly, this wallet is sized for the larger Euro sized bills rather than the relatively smaller American dollars. Now I feel perpetually poorer. Which is the reality also. |
Glass weapons| Milan: airport These glass pencils got flagged at airport security. They could be used as weapons. But the security folk let me through onto the plane anyway. Bless that lax Italian security. Actually, good folk. Quite understanding. Good for tourism. |
April 3 2:53pm (Chicago)| Chicago: o'hare Back in our own wonderful country, I find myself starving. Getting reacclimated to our national food again- McDonalds. Aie! Airport food. |
Lost luggage redux| Altadena: bedroom They've managed to lose my luggage on the way home too. I think I'm cursed. They didn't even have the glass pencil weapons in them. |
 Altadena: kitchen License plate carrier is slated to be mounted on the refrigerator for magnets to stick on. Refrigerator brochures don't mention that magnets don't stick to stainless steel. |
License to Grill
I think he lost| Burbank: office Mayoral poster framed and ready to be hung. Many inquisitive head peeped in my door. |
April 2 9:38am
On the rocks | Altadena: tom lehrer cd's Thanks Bob. Thanks Sheila. Thanks Alex. Love the Tom Lehrer. Altadena: liquor stash I still like it. Hard to find in Southern California though. |
| Altadena: shiny baubles Glass baubles from Murano. Utterly useless. But shiny. |
Baubles
Roman ties
Venetian ties | Arcadia: parents' house Mean postcard sent from the Vatican. Very spooky and slightly creepy since the Pope passed away while the postcard was in transit to Dad's mailbox. |
Pope Stamp
Safe keeping | Altadena: closet Mouth blown glass cups stored in the closet for safe keeping until the house renovation is done. Will these ever be used? |
Sketch Book