W15 of Y2

3rd Grade

I love going to Whitney's school for lunch.  

I'm going to be sad when I don't have any kids left in elementary school to go eat with! 

 Whitney's friends caught me taking pics and then
 begged to take a picture of us all together! So cute!!

Speech and Debate

 Connor has been in the Speech and Debate club for the last few months.  

This week was the competition!

It was quite a large group of kids!!  They were all middle schoolers. 

Studying the topics

He's ready!

Can you believe..... he and his partner, Sam won 2nd place!!!!

Connor with his speech and debate partner and best friend!

 Carnevale in Venice (almost)

It is time for Carnevale again and we had so much fun there last year we decided to go again since the kids didn't have school on Friday.

The 'MFU' graffiti in the background stands for Middle Fingers Up.
My kids think it's hilarious and love to pose by it whenever we see it.

Telling secrets on the train

Seriously.... The 2 boys couldn't look away from their games for 2 seconds for the picture????

Had to get our masks

Where is everyone at??????  This is NOT the Carnevale I remember!!!

Lunch with the gang!

This sounded like a good idea until.......

..........Hahahahahaha!!!!!!!

Gelato with toppings.  Genius idea!!!

Yes.... I know.  Lots of birds pics!  It was the kids highlight of the trip!!!

It turns out that we were 1 day early for Carnevale.  It didn't start until Saturday!!  haha!! 

Oh, well... a day in Venice is never a day wasted!

Such a crazy, fun group of kids!!! Love them!!

We opted for the waterbus back instead of walking.  We were all beat!

Not pictured....

Saturday Aiden got on a bus at 6am to go to a basketball game in Livorno and Connor had his basketball game against Aviano at home.  Both boys won their games!!

Also on Saturday we said goodbye to Jeremy who went to the U.S. for the next 10 days for a visit. :(