Ah, the simple charms of ole Italy! Sitting around, knitting lace.
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Italian Bakery
This is an Italian bakery. Notice how no-one is wearing gloves or hair nets. That is why alcohol consumption is much more common over here, to kill the germs.
Roll, Roll, Roll your bread...
This is Lisa making Italian bread. Italian husbands are extra hen-pecked as Italian women developed "strike at a distance" rolling pins. Lisa learned how to make this bread in an old castle.
Tractor
I don't quite understand why they have a tractor here as it looks like American tourists are doing all the work. Anyway, I plan to make a "European Farm Machinery" coffee table book.
Lisa picking olives
This is a picture of Lisa picking olives. Apparently, you rake the limbs of the tree and the olives fall out. This is perfectly safe as the tree's bark is worse than its bite.
Guy Picking Olives
This guy has the "stand on a rickety ladder backwards in rubber boots" gene. I can't even stand on a sturdy ladder backwards in rubber boots.
Lisa in an Olive Grove
This is Lisa in an Olive grove. She stopped to have her picture taken while everyone else was working. Olives taste way worse straight off the tree I'm told.
Lisa's Church Retreat
Church Retreat, Retreat? From What? Lisa went to see Kay Authur, who didn't show up. They had a good time anyway.
Sunday School Class
This is a picture of most everybody in our Sunday School class. We were waiting on Pizzas after church.
The Longs
This is Adam and Alexis Long. They moved to California, where beatiful women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. Email me if you know where that quote is from. (hint, in the movie, it is referring to Aspen, Colorado).
The Long's going away lunch
This is Lisa and me at Adam and Alexis Long's going away lunch. I guess you're wondering why I have a picture of Lisa and me up if it is Adam and Alexis' going away. Hey, its MY blog.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Road Trip!
I had to go to a conference in Garmisch but I didn't have to be there till Monday so Lisa and I left on a little road trip beginning on Saturday. We started south through Germany, turned east in Switzerland, went through Licthenstein (which is too small to take a picture of), through Austria and back up into Germany. It was very nice. This is Lisa on the shores of Lake Constance.
yee haw!
The region of Switzerland that we visited is called Apenzell. This is "po-dunk" switzerland. They are famous for two things, cheese and beer. Their cheese smells like sneakers that you have waded in the creek in, put in your closet wet, and forgotten about. Then you found them, put the foot hole over your nose and mout and breathed as deeply as you could. It tastes considerably better than that. Also, the beer I believe was invented to help cope with the smell.
The most famous thing in Innsbruck, Austria
It's called the Golden Roof, which I don't think is really gold or it would be called "the stolen golden roof".
Replacement windows
This guys wife has been asking for vinyl replacement windows for hundreds of years.
Old Guesthouse
This place has been a guesthouse (hotel) since 1465. I think Napolean stayed here when he was scoping things out. This place has been a hotel since before America was discovered. Which means that if you were sitting in the new guesthouse when it was built eating breakfast, and you said, "hey, what do you think about the new world?", people wouldn't know what you were talking about.
Random Llamas
We were eating a late lunch in Innsbruck and these llamas started walking by. The guy in the forground was in the mafia and the llamas went "missing" soon after this photo was taken.
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