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Road Trip Thursday, December 17th, 2009 By Mary Beth Evans We are a family of five….Now a very big 5.  Both my boys and husband are over 6′ tall. My daughter’s 5′7” and I am  the shrimp at 5′4″(on a good day).  Hard to imagine, all you gals with your sweet little children, but this is [...]

My European Adventure…Part 9 Thursday, October 22nd, 2009 Ever have one of those mornings where you hit the snooze button one too many times?  I think we all unfortunately have and that is how we started our day when we had an early flight out of Rome.  We scrambled franticly and thankfully made our flight [...]

My European Adventure…Part 6  Thursday, October 1st, 2009 Friday morning brought another scorcher.  Italy in August is a hot one!  That is why so many of the locals go elsewhere this time of year but we were committed to seeing as much as we could, so we headed out. We had planned to go to [...]

My European Adventure…Part 5 Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 We met at 11:00 am to head to The Santa Maria Cathedral in Florence where inside is the famous fresco called The Holy Trinity, with the Virgin and Saint John and donors by the early Italian Renaissance painter Massacchio.  This is the most celebrated work of Masaccio [...]

My European Adventure…Part 4 Thursday, September 17th, 2009 To start the day we took another beautiful cab ride back to Bennedetta for a 10:00 am class.  I had mentioned to her how I loved Panna Cotta, especially after the coconut one we had the first night in Florence so this morning she said that would [...]

My European Adventure…Part 2 Thursday, September 3rd, 2009 (If you missed part 1, be sure to go back and catch up) Katie, Carolyn and I sat in the bar at Gatwick airport waiting to check in, talking about plans for our arrival in Florence and our anticipation for the cooking classes we were set to [...]

My European Adventure…Part 1 Thursday, August 27th, 2009 As my daughter Katie and I set out on our European adventure, it dawned on me that it had been 30 years since I had been there.  After high school my friend Carrie and I worked for 6 months, saved as much money as we could and traveled [...]