Ok… It’s Frankie and I am currently being eaten alive by little blood sucking MONSTERS!!! Aka Mosquitos
So since all the rain we’ve gotten we have a more than azilloin misquitos!!! No joke. You can’t really go outside without either showering yourself in icky bug spray or getting eaten alive. Even with bug spray, if you stand still too long you will be eaten alive!😱 I mean I counted I have over 70 bites! I even have bites on top of bites.
The dogs don’t even seem to mind the least bit. Lucky.
Guess what? I know it’s not Friday, but I’m gonna post whenever now! So happy 4th of July all. I’m going to see the fireworks with my friend tonight. and as you may know, I got a long board yesterday, and have been using it nonstop! It’s soooo cool. I named it ZEEK! (Yes, all capitals) ZEEK has probably out done my scooter😏
Anyway, I’ll put a picture of me riding ZEEK, and comment what YOU are doing on the Fourth of July.
Uncle Scott wants YOU
to have a happy 4th of July!
She finally got her birthday present. Now, everyone in the family wants one, except for Bee.
She’s getting very good at it, very fast. Must be her scooter training!
YAY! Today I had another cousin born. Her name is Evelyn Fay, and she is so cute! I can’t wait to meet her. Here are some pictures:
Getting to know Grandma
We just got back from Italy and I’m having an AWESOME time in Michigan!!!😃 In Italy we went to the expo it was so fun!!!! I won a free postcard at the Coca Cola company! 
Biking along the Po from Milano to Venezia was something that Scott and I dreamed about for about 15 years. The girls were old enough and it was our 25th wedding anniversary.
Here’s a summary of our whole ride from Milan to Venice. The GPX data on all of the rides, and a higher resolution map, are available here. We didn’t follow these routes exactly but it’s pretty close.
Milan, Pavia, Piacenza, Cremona, Casalmaggiore, Mantova, Ostiglia, Ferrara, Chioggia, Venice
Total distance for the routes is 323.6 miles (including ferries between Chioggia and Venice). However, with all of our minor route changes, Angie tells me that according to her GPS watch we actually rode about 361 miles!
Victory: getting our bikes from Lido to Venice. It turns out there is an unwritten rule that Venice water buses (shown below) do not carry bikes. This makes sense because 1) It is not allowed to ride a bike in Venice and 2) The water buses are always crowded. Bear in mind that we were taking two tandems into Venice, with a loaded trailer (!). Here was our techniqe: Run down to the dock and ask the captain “Due bike abordo?” in your best bad Italian. He says ok, but only for one stop (the first stop on Venice). Then you run back and get the family with two cute bambinis pushing the gigantic tandems and trailer. He freaks out a little, then says “This is a gift to you”. He was right.
A Venetian vaporetto, or water bus
In contrast to the previous 11 days, we spent Saturday among crowds of tourists in Venice on Saturday. Venice was certainly beautiful, and the high point of our day was visiting the Basilica de San Marco, which has a museum where most churches have choir lofts, and that museum provided rooftop access for a unique view of the piazza. I would visit more churches if the let you walk out on the roof.
