fun things, as of late

we are still working hard, as usual, but this weekend was an especially fun time.

we went had a agape meal (potluck) after church on sunday:

we went to the soccer game sunday afternoon with the harding students:

we went to the beatles concert at the villa sunday night:

then tuesday was the "feste delle donne" in italy or "women's day", so after our classes tuesday morning, ryan and i spent the afternoon in piazzale michelangelo enjoying the sun and the view. we also hiked up to san minato, the church on the hill up there behind the piazzale michelangelo.

ryan took pictures of me like this:

i took pictures of him like this: (we also probably annoyed a lot of people but we had fun together and that's what's important, right?)

when the sun started going down, we walked back into town and went to the academy of art and design to a photo exhibit of one of ryan's students, valentino.

his daughter (my student) olga was there too:

then last night we celebrated angela's birthday at "the clubhouse" in florence and then strolled around our beautiful city at night and enjoyed birthday dessert in the piazza o the duomo. it was quite a treat!

coming up friday will be the second american cooking school but watch out...guess who's teaching this one? that's right, it is me. debbie is going out of town and i'm left in charge, really scary. i'm really nervous but our students are very gracious and patient so i hope they will still enjoy it. i'm making meatloaf, potato casserole, california cabbage, and chocolate chip cookies. i know it's easy, i did that on purpose. ryan is the designated photographer (always), so there will be more to come after friday.

have a great rest of the week!