Keeping Busy Weekdays & Weekends

Both Ada and Navi are doing gymnastics twice a week. But because of covid, parents are not allowed inside the gym and DaddyQuique does not have a picture for the blog.

Last week the Lopezjoneses headed over to Luca and Cate's house to help harvest olives. Everyone thought it was a fun activity which required raking off the olives from the trees, or by hand and gathering them all into baskets/crates. Navi enjoyed being up in the tree helping out.

Last aturday morning the twins played hooky from school and went on a hike with their cousins in Marostica. It was a beautiful day and everything was green with beautiful vistas of the inland valleys and mountains.

And then they made friends with a donkey! Much time was spent with it. And the donkey enjoyed the group so much it followed them all on this particular leg of the hike until a gate kept him in his place.

This of course was a highlight of the hike for all the kids and the adults.

Sunday the Lopezjoneses made their way to Treviso for lunch with Renata, a cousin of PapaJason. They had a great lunch at her home.

Later, with masks on, they went out for a passegiata within the walls of the old town. There were some very beautiful canals, old buildings on quaint cobbled roads.

They got a special treat, a nutria (Europe's beaver) was out enjoying the day too. A local was feeding the water fowl and the nutria.

On Wednesday the Giro d'Italy began its 17th stage in Bassano. The route passed in front of the Lopezjoneses' apartment in Piazza.