I can now check this one off the list!Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Last but not least: The Food!!!
Yes I know I have already posted the Spanish hot chocolate, but honestly, it deserves it's own post (although I am not giving it that for time constraints). This stuff is the most amazing stuff my tongue has ever touched! And look closely you can see the spoon is just resting half way in it. The stuff is so thick the spoon sits where you put it and doesn't sink. Mmmm mmmm good. And yes, I did find it boxed and it made it's way all the way to the states with us. It is the only reason I am looking forward to the cold weather.
Paella con pollo, rice with chicken, another Spanish dish and is served EVERYWHERE you look. Yuumy. I will google this and try to make it myself sometime.
This was a dessert on he boat, it sadly looks prettier than it tasted :(
This was Bill's after dinner dinner. And there are 2 count them 2 more lobsters on here, on top of the lobster he ate at dinner. That was one good/bad thing about the cruise, all the food you literally can eat. And some how we both came home negative lbs!
Italiano pastries
Napoli pizza, the best slice of heaven ever!! And I mean ever!! We did contemplate ordering 2 more for the ride. And each person orders this size and eats the whole thing, and the taste buds appreciate every minute of that.
First real Italian gelato, it was a monumental moment
Steak+lobster+second helping of it=a very happy boy with a satisfied belly!
Just a few yummers for sampling.
Italian tiramisu, delish. I miss that, and it was the best I ever had, even beat Braconi's (a restaurant I used to work at where I thought they had the best tiramisu-losers)
The best lasagna we have ever had!!! The ingredients were so simple and yet it was so tasty!!
The daily gelato and a pizza bianca, and yes I tried the pizza bianca as it was recommended by Samantha Brown. She is one smart cookie.
The pizza bianca is the last one on the right, wish I could have tried every one of these :(
More that I wish I could have tried, but just not enough belly space or canceling out of calories.
Bill eating pizza for the first time with a knife and fork, even though he has mad fun of me our whole married life for doing so, but that is how the Italianos do it and I guess when in Rome...
Spanish baby octopus. And no, these did not enter my belly as I prefer to see them in an aquarium or scubaing rather than eat the poor lil fellas. But Bill has no sympathy.
French mussels, with french fries, of course.
French lemon pie, it was pretty good, with french vanilla ice cream, which was one of the best vanilla ice creams I have ever had. On the right that is a meringue cookie thing.
Banana and Nutella warm crepe. It was love at first sight with us.
Paella con pollo, rice with chicken, another Spanish dish and is served EVERYWHERE you look. Yuumy. I will google this and try to make it myself sometime.
This was a dessert on he boat, it sadly looks prettier than it tasted :(
This was Bill's after dinner dinner. And there are 2 count them 2 more lobsters on here, on top of the lobster he ate at dinner. That was one good/bad thing about the cruise, all the food you literally can eat. And some how we both came home negative lbs!
Italiano pastries
Napoli pizza, the best slice of heaven ever!! And I mean ever!! We did contemplate ordering 2 more for the ride. And each person orders this size and eats the whole thing, and the taste buds appreciate every minute of that.
First real Italian gelato, it was a monumental moment
Steak+lobster+second helping of it=a very happy boy with a satisfied belly!
Just a few yummers for sampling.
Italian tiramisu, delish. I miss that, and it was the best I ever had, even beat Braconi's (a restaurant I used to work at where I thought they had the best tiramisu-losers)
The best lasagna we have ever had!!! The ingredients were so simple and yet it was so tasty!!
The daily gelato and a pizza bianca, and yes I tried the pizza bianca as it was recommended by Samantha Brown. She is one smart cookie.
The pizza bianca is the last one on the right, wish I could have tried every one of these :(
More that I wish I could have tried, but just not enough belly space or canceling out of calories.
Bill eating pizza for the first time with a knife and fork, even though he has mad fun of me our whole married life for doing so, but that is how the Italianos do it and I guess when in Rome...
Spanish baby octopus. And no, these did not enter my belly as I prefer to see them in an aquarium or scubaing rather than eat the poor lil fellas. But Bill has no sympathy.
French mussels, with french fries, of course.
French lemon pie, it was pretty good, with french vanilla ice cream, which was one of the best vanilla ice creams I have ever had. On the right that is a meringue cookie thing.
Banana and Nutella warm crepe. It was love at first sight with us.
Cannes, France
The Norwegian Gem, our ship. Fun fact: Oprah cruised on it the tour before us! That is the only claim to fame I think I have ever had so I am livin it up!
Fragonard is a perfume factory we toured. We bought a few bottles while there and now we smell good with out even showering. To say the name though you have to make the french hocking a lugie sound in the middle of the word as in: Fr-(hock the lugie)-onar-(hock another one)-d and then it would be phonetically correct!
They take the flower or whatever and put it into these machine to steam the scent out of it and make the sent pure.
then they bottle the scents
here they filter the want from the not want, like a coffee filter.
Fragonard is a perfume factory we toured. We bought a few bottles while there and now we smell good with out even showering. To say the name though you have to make the french hocking a lugie sound in the middle of the word as in: Fr-(hock the lugie)-onar-(hock another one)-d and then it would be phonetically correct!
They take the flower or whatever and put it into these machine to steam the scent out of it and make the sent pure.
then they bottle the scents
here they filter the want from the not want, like a coffee filter.
Back in the day they would get scent this way. They would take the flowers and lay them on animal lard as shown, once the lard soaked up the sent they would put another layer of flowers on, they would do this over and over until they decided that instead of using one ton of flowers to make one once of scent, they would do it the way now, which is with the steam.
These barrels are full of perfume. I tried to steal one but didn't get very far with it. Much harder than just taking a bottle! JK I don't steal sillies.
This is the lab where the noses live. Being a nose is a real job that you have to go to school for 10 years and then internship for a few years until you are a professional nose. 80% are men because a women's sense of smell changes through pregnancy and all the other fun stuff that women have to deal with. But once they are pro noses, they only work a few hours a day and are millionaires. Must be nice.
St. Paul De Vence is a little town where the celebs go to play when they are here for the Cannes Film Festival. It is a little boutiquey area.
This is where the million/billionaires go when they die. I am not quite sure why they need such a view when they are buried 6 ft under. Whatever.
Dog and cat sitting in front of a store, chillaxin.
Shopping boutiques.
Bill lookin modelicious and not even realizing it.
Oh, just some million dollar homes, no biggie.
This is one of the hotels the celebs will stay when they come to the film festival. 5 star of course!
The streets if Cannes
French Riviera
These barrels are full of perfume. I tried to steal one but didn't get very far with it. Much harder than just taking a bottle! JK I don't steal sillies.
This is the lab where the noses live. Being a nose is a real job that you have to go to school for 10 years and then internship for a few years until you are a professional nose. 80% are men because a women's sense of smell changes through pregnancy and all the other fun stuff that women have to deal with. But once they are pro noses, they only work a few hours a day and are millionaires. Must be nice.
St. Paul De Vence is a little town where the celebs go to play when they are here for the Cannes Film Festival. It is a little boutiquey area.
This is where the million/billionaires go when they die. I am not quite sure why they need such a view when they are buried 6 ft under. Whatever.
Dog and cat sitting in front of a store, chillaxin.
Shopping boutiques.
Bill lookin modelicious and not even realizing it.
Oh, just some million dollar homes, no biggie.
This is one of the hotels the celebs will stay when they come to the film festival. 5 star of course!
The streets if Cannes
French Riviera
And the beach which had boobs sporadically through it, and naked kids playing in the sand.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
My heart is stuck in Florenza, Italia
I absolutely fell in love with Florence. I loved all of Italy that we saw, but this was definitely my favorite! we did most of our shopping here and of course ate some more pizza and loved every minute of it.
The Palazzo Vecchio
The Duomo bell tower
From far away this looked a little strange to accentuate such an area, but up close it is just a leaf!
Uhhhhhhhhh, not quite sure what to say about this!
A copy of Michelangelo's David
One of my favorite parts of Florence. Isn't this so romantic!
Ponte Vecchio (old bridge) is the only bridge in Florence that survived WW2 because it was thought of as one of the most beautiful bridges.
Sometimes the lighting isn't perfect for me to take pics of Bill, so I always have to lighten then so more of him shows up other than his teeth!
My Italian shoes are in those bags!!!
The lady who took this obviously didn't focus first, but Happy 6th Anniversary to us! And this is the only pic we have together to prove it! 
Ponte Vecchio again
Entrance to a bridge, Italians wouldn't have it any other way than to ornate the entrances with more statues!
Duomo behind the Baptistery on the right
The Baptistery
Sunflower fields in Tuscany
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