Pisa

This was one of our favorite stops! The icon of Italy and so worth seeing. The kids (and us too) just loved it. Unfortunately we couldn't go up to the top, you have to be 8...I would of loved to climb the stairs. Oh well!
The plaza has 3 main buildings, the leaning tower, Piazza del Duomo and the Baptistery. Each one is beautiful and unique. I was very impressed on how much the tower really does lean. I guess during construction they tried fixing it, but made it worse. It was then tried to fix several years later, but they still couldn't straighten it out. Just since the mid 1990's they they finally stabilized it enough, that it was reopened for tourist to climb.

Along the River at nightThe Baptistery

The Duomo

Our attempt at "holding up the tower" we are not very good and the kids didn't have the patience for us to take a million pictures.

Cinque Terre

Next stop on our trip was Cinque Terre. Not sure driving there was the best idea, the roads were very windy and narrow! I was feeling sick all day ( think I had a little of the bug that the kids had, and car sick!) We ended up only going to one of the towns.
The Cinque Terre is made up of 5 towns which you can take a train from one to the next. If I had planned better we might of stayed and seen them all, but just gives us an excuse to go back!
It was very beautiful and we enjoyed our short stay.

Milan, Italy

The end of March Justin took a week off and we drove to Italy!
First stop after a 7 hour drive was Milan. As we walked up from the underground subway there was this huge cathedral, a local band was playing and lots of people it was really neat. Our stay here was short, but was for the best because Cassidy got really sick. She caught the bug that Preston had a few days before we left.

3rd largest church in Europe
One of the guys in the band put his hat on the kids head after they finished playingInside roof of this big shopping mall

Not sure who or where these guys were from, but they sounded good.
Entrance to the shopping area

Lots more pictures to come!