Parting Shots

After flying in just one week ago for a fun-filled, fleet-footed, family romp through Firenze … the time to bid, “ARRIVEDERCI” to Maddie and Blake arrived all too quickly. And so it was done. At 4:20am Saturday morning the driver escorted the zombie-walking and Flo-filled couple with their overstuffed suitcases into the minibus thereby reducing our pseudo-Italian Famiglia quintet to a trio.

As our loyal blog readers likely expected, Anne and I were ‘made whole’ with the Full Fam Dam joined together for the first time since mid-January. The kids’ visit was perfectly timed as Anne and I were comfortably settled into La Vida Fiorentini and missing them dearly. Anne didn’t even object to the notion of doing a couple more loads of laundry in our under-powered and under-sized washer/dryer !!

In addition to restorative hugs+kisses, eyeball-to-eyeball conversations, shared meals, urban hiking and basking in our chillun’s glowing countenances; we also missed the groupspeak nuances like: spontaneous crosstalk, silence breaking chatter, silly giggles, loving pokes, inside jokes, sudden interruptions and the one-eared eavesdropping that comes with a lively and loving family gathering. It literally felt all week like we were gathered around the kitchen island on a Sunday afternoon chatting away.

While Hannah remains in Italia for another week with the P’s, we have all these great pics to share and recall those days in March 2022 when Sis and Blake crashed the Villa Merlo Nero.

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Ciao!! ❤️❤️🇮🇹😊😊