Beverly's week in Tuscany

Two weeks ago my Aunt, Beverly, from New Zealand came to stay with us for a bit. It was cool because she played with me a lot. She played soccer, helped me fix my tree house roof and helped me do my animation project for school. My Aunt has also an exciting, cool and wonderful blog of her own and there are a lot of amazing photos on her blog of her time in Tuscany. Here is the address to her blog http://treehousedwellers.blogspot.com/ . She also has another blog for her kindergarten. The children there do lots of cool computerised stuff on the blog. Here is the address to the blog http://manaiakindergarten.blogspot.com/

On the Saturday after Beverly arrived my Mum, Beverly and I went to Florence to have a look around. After we went through the markets we found a walk up about 100 stairs to a fort on the top of a hill. It had a great view of the Duomo, the Santa Croce church and the Ponte Vecchio. All the pictures that we took were on Beverly's camera so have a look on her blog.

The next day my Mum's friend Jenifer and her boyfriend Francesco from Florence came with 4 Florentine steaks a.k.a Bistecca Fiorentine for lunch. For starters we had bruschetta, cold meats and home made bread. The steak was cooked in the pizza oven five minutes on each side. They were YUMMY!!!! Next week we are going to go to Francesco's restaurant.

Another thing we did with Beverly was go to San Gimignano which is a small village where people live in towers. There are 15 towers in the whole of San Gimignano but there used to be 72. Here are some photos of San Gimignano.

On Tuesday, we all went to Florence to the food market to buy a whole range of different Italian meals for a feast that we had in the evening. The starters were, deep fried zucchini flowers with a filling of zucchini and cheese, bruschetta with porcini mushrooms and the other ones with meat and caprese salad. Main course was steak and calamari. For dessert we had a strawberry and raspberry fruit salad with deep fried biscuits and mascarpone cheese. That meal was one of the best meals I've ever had! Go to this address to see some pictures of our feast http://treehousedwellers.blogspot.com/2008/09/florentine-feast.html.

Tomorrow I will write about my trip to England for my Grandpa and my cousin's birthday. That's where we were last week.