Sneaky daughter in Brittany

The 3rd Weekend of May is the Mother’s day weekend! I was going to go visit my mama on the Monday after Mother’s day, but decided instead to surprise her. I called my brother and told him that I was wanted to surprise my “Mutti” on Sunday morning instead of showing up on the Monday evening. So I drove all day on Saturday, arrived in Auray on the evening and went to hide for the night at my brother’s house. We went to my mother’s house on Sunday for lunch, and as my brother and his family got in, I stayed behind and called her from my cell. She answer and I started a conversation with her like, I was just calling her to say Happy Mother’s day! Then I opened the house and asked her on the phone what she was doing? And telling her that I’d rather have a hug in person. She saw me and started crying!! :-(Both my brother and I were shocked that she would react like that, but she was thrilled, and I was happy to have been a sneaky daughter!! ;-)

I then stayed all week to help her start with some project of sorting the family paper and archives. And those were just taken during our little break time!

Recreation Plaza in a French Junior High!

(The building is where the class are held) Catholic School (Vannes France)

One of the best delicacy in Brittany France. The Kouign-amann is a super buttery fluffy cake that you will die for! (Best to eat in Brittany warm with a nice view of the ocean!! )

Have some kids that don’t want to share their breakfast bowl with their sibling, a nice litte souvenir from Brittany is a Named one!! Love those!!

Celtic Harpist in Vannes France!

Paper Boat in front of a real one!! Just love the idea!

"Celebration" or "Code" flags??

Toothbrush?? Anyone??

And of course who could leave without eating the best of Artichoke in all of France?

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Photo shot with Kim

With the HCSC Photoclub, we sometime go and meet for some shooting (and no animals has suffer from any of our... shooting!) So on of those days that we were going to do just that! My oldest ask if I could take pictures of him before he removed his dreadlocks, so I text miss Kim,

Shop Talk Fun Heidelberg Germany Photographer Kim Kravitz Photography Heidelberg, Germany Boudoir, Wedding, Senior, and Couple Photographer

And we all went there. While Kim and Jenn were busy taking picture of the beautiful Annika. I took some of Handsome boy! LOL Here what I got as a final product.

I however don't shoot as good as Kim, and you probably saw her AWESOME shot of Damien jumping if you followed the link. And if you haven't seen it yet, GO GO!!! You won't regret it!

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Neckar Cruise mandatory Fun

So every so often we have to have "Mandatory" fun! This month it was to go
on the Neckar river on a boat cruise (which was so lame, I am telling you.) Being stuck in a boat for 1 hour, just to go around to be able to drink beer for those gentlemen... Sorry, not what I call my kind of fun! LOL

Well at least I had my handy dandy camera and was able to pass the time by doing what I love to do... Taking pictures! LOL So here are a few of those!! Hope you enjoy them!

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Florence

Matt last visit in Florence was a very bad one. The pollution in town was just awful, and
since he almost suffer from an allergy attack in Rome, we decided that it would be better
for him to stay at the villa for the day, while I took my mother to walk around Firenze.We cruise around the Via Del Purgatorio (fitted for me don't you think?) LOL
Discover a cool sign next to it! LOL
And finally made it to the famous Bridge!

Cruised some more! Had to get some fresh fruit!!

And discovered a pretty handsome view! (You decide what it is!) ;-)

And made it to the Duomo which was just incredible!!

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Abbazio di San Galgano

Driving for a short while along the SS73 southwest of Siena you will get to San Galgano Abbey which dates back to the 13th century. At present it is in very bad conditions yet what remains shows how magnificent it was in its Gothic splendour. The admission to the abbey, one of Italy’s most remarkable ones is free.
In Val d’Elsa the monks of Abbey San Galgano used to administer justice and keep
the books of the municipalities of Volterra and Siena. Therefore they were very
influential in building Siena’s Duomo and exercised authority over
between Siena and Volterra. Sir John Hawkwood pillaged valuables from the Abbazia San Galgano twice or
maybe more in the 1300s. Disrepair increased and in the 1500s the Cistercian
monks of the abbey were not as powerful and rich as centuries before. In the 18th century the bell tower and the ceiling vaults caved in.
Today the abbey has no roof but its stone and brick walls have survived
the centuries and keep watch of the landscape around. By the church are the vestiges of the monastery and cloisters where today a tourist office is housed (tel. 0577 75 67 38; open 10.30am-7pm Easter-Oct).
The abbey plays host to summer concerts which the Accadema Musicale Chigiana supports.
At first the monks used to be housed in the Cappella di Monte Siepi which watches over the abbey later constructed by the Cistercian monks on a lower level. This minute and round Romanesque chapel was frescoed by Ambrogio Lorenzetti. His theme was San Galgano‘s life events. Unfortunately they are in quite bad conditions. San Galgano, to whom Saint Michael appeared, spent the last years of his life in here as if it was a hermitage. According to legends, the sword stuck on the floor meant that he would never surrender to earthly pleasures.

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