To celebrate our anniversary even though a few days later, we did two things together with the kids and also with my brother and uncle. On July 24, Saturday, we spent the day and the evening at a water park that seems to be quite popular in Rome, called Zoo Marine. Just outside of Rome for about 20 minutes or so, the water park hosts a bunch of slides and attractions as well as some animal shows, in the style of places like in San Diego, just on a smaller scale. The entrance ticket gives you way to everything in the park, and you can truly relax all day by a chair and an umbrella, enjoying the breeze of the nearby ocean.
We waited till the evening as we also had access to a small concert by an old Italian singer:
Gianni Morandi, who entertained us for about and hour and a half in the dolphins' hall. A Dolphin even played a bit of its show to accompany a few of the singer's songs. I knew every word of every song, and so did the audience (minus of course my family who is not quite acquainted with the old Italian songs). Amazingly enough the kids lasted all the way through and, even more surprising, I did not gel lost on the way back home, traveling on the
Litoranea, the road that runs on the side of the ocean, filled with traffic even at midnight.
Another important attraction of the park are professional divers, who put on a funny and daring show. I invite you all to check out the short video at the bottom of the page. The stunt man that gets himself on fire is quite amazing.
On Monday, July 26, we also celebrated my mom's name day (a big deal here in Italy, even more than one's birthday):
Sant'Anna. So we combined a tradition of going back to the hotel and restaurant where Nick and I got married in Frascati, Villa Rufinella, with my brother and niece and zio Morino. The villa continues to be a fantastic and beautiful place to admire architecture, a perfect location accompanied by an amazing restaurant. Overall, the day was filled with picture taking poses to ensure we have good documentation of the occasion (my mom does not go out very often, so this was quite an event!). One way or the other we are trying to ensure that happy memories are built day after day, filling this time with laughs and good time. We have to concentrate our efforts as coming here cannot happen more often that we already do. So far things seem to work out.
More to share in the next posts.
We waited till the evening as we also had access to a small concert by an old Italian singer: Gianni Morandi, who entertained us for about and hour and a half in the dolphins' hall. A Dolphin even played a bit of its show to accompany a few of the singer's songs. I knew every word of every song, and so did the audience (minus of course my family who is not quite acquainted with the old Italian songs). Amazingly enough the kids lasted all the way through and, even more surprising, I did not gel lost on the way back home, traveling on the Litoranea, the road that runs on the side of the ocean, filled with traffic even at midnight.
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