Volterra...

Yes! For those of you who have read the Twilight Saga...yes! This is the same Volterra that Meyer wrote about in the second book! On Sunday (I am still writing about last Sunday...it was a REALLY long day and we didn't get home until midnight...we are tired!) after we went to Pisa and Lucca, we went the back way home through Volterra. On the way there we saw this awesome rainbow...

We reached Volterra at about 7pm and enjoyed our first real experience in an Italian resturant (thank you Rick Steves')...we were really adventurous and ordered different KINDS of pizza! It was really good...we even got to have some vino! Again, it has been hard to do resturants because we don't know enough Italian to order anything for us let alone the kids! So this was a real treat...I loved it! Just outside the old city walls is this roman ampitheater...

The town also has 'the only Etruscan archway' in existance...at least that is what they say. Apparently in WWII, the Nazis were retreating through this town and wanted to blow up the arch to stop the allied advance...the people of the town ripped the stones out of the road and blocked the arch and convince the retreating Nazi army not to blow it up...

As we were walking through this old castle turned town at dusk, one can really understand why Meyer chose to use it in her book. Bats flying overhead, people looking at you funny (well, I guess we get that everywhere we go here, but it certainly added to the ambiance of the place)...it is easy to just let your imagination go! Here is the Tuscan view from the town at dusk...

Phew! Last weekend is done now! On to other fun stuff! I think we have explored more in the past month and a half than we have in Case's entire life! Good thing our rental car has unlimited miles!

Have a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend!

Ciao a tutti!