pictures from venice: gus, rich and sophie

i am so proud of myself--i shot over 1100 pictures during our two weeks in venice! unfortunately, that means i have 1100 pictures to go through and edit--or not. here are images of gus, sophie and rich in venice--i am also going to put some others here and on argusgallery.com (eventually) that are just of venice. enjoy!

this is the most ideal sight for any parent travelling on a plane with a small child


gus and rich on the water taxi to the apartment


gus and rich


sophie blowing a raspberry at her mommy


sophie loves her daddy


gus on his favorite bridge in venice (notice it does not have any banisters)


really bad picture of me, gus and sophie on a vaporetto


unbreakable rule number one for travelling in italy with small children: let the kiddos feed the pigeons, no matter how grossed out you are by the concept


sophie trying to run the pigeons over with her most detested stroller


sophie making peace with the birds


"what is down there?"


gus gazing longingly at a gondola


gus feeding the pigeons


gus freeing the pigeon that he caught


gus half-wrestling, half-feeding the pigeons


sophie enjoying a box of apricot juice


giovanni e carolina


gus about to get in really big trouble at i frari


san marco and the doge's palace from the vaporetto


sleeping sophie with sleeping gondolier


gus feeding the pigeons


gus still feeding the pigeons; sophie has lost interest


gus and sophie near piazza san marco


gus on his favorite bridge, again


rich and sophie


gus counting steps


gus on his other favorite bridge in torcello (also, no banisters--these are the only two in the lagoon without them!)


basilica santa maria assunta at torcello--and there is a great new york times article about torcello here.


gus, sophie and rich in the belltower at torcello


gus' island--this is where gus said he is going to live when he grows up


gus found a throne and kindly invited his sister to join him


danger girl climbs and climbs and climbs...


sophie takes a break


unbreakable rule number two for travelling in italy with small children: keep the kiddos stuffed full of gelato


yum


safety gus is thinking, "i'm not sure if you can drink that sophie, but you go ahead and try while i watch."


beautiful floors at santa maria e san donato on murano


happy, happy girl


gus, rich and sophie in campo santa sofia


gus on the traghetto


sophie on traghetto santa sofia


traghetto driver with a penchant for pens


resting sophie


sophie did miss a few sites along the way (note the bridge of sighs is in the background)


gus and pigeons


this pigeon did break the skin, and i started wiping down gus with clorox wipes after each feeding


i could get so used to buying fresh fruits and vegetables every day if i was buying them in this type of setting...


gus riding the train to ravenna (he took to train travel beautifully)


gus outside of san vitale in ravenna--it was pouring there when we got off the train


augustus finds his namesake outside of san apollinare en classe


gus doing his best to freak out italian drivers with his ninja-sword master impression


gus inside of san apollinare nuovo


this is the crypt of gus' favorite church in ravenna, san francesco. if you look closely...


...you can see there are many live fish living in the flooded crypt


gus writing in his journal on the train back from ravenna


sophie on top of san marco


checking out the people on piazza san marco


little feet


gus and rich in the campanile


close-up of gus and rich


sophie and santa claus (st. nicholas)


sophie having so much fun on top of san marco


gus and sophie feeding the pigeons (notice how rich has just shaken off two pigeon riders from his back--that freaked him out for the rest of the day)


gus feeding the pigeons


gus hanging on yet another fence


rich and sophie


rich, sophie and gus on the piazza in front of san zanipolo, after getting thoroughly chewed out by a priest inside the church who didn't think sophie was being respectful enough for the place. he got even more pissed after i told him i thought children's laughter was the voice of god (in my best italian, no less!). oh well.


gus sulking after we told him we weren't going to rent a gondola on this trip


he was only partially appeased by ice cream (sophie was thrilled)


gus hit his apex of italian cool in padua


gus and sophie on the train back from padua (sophie took to train travel beautifully as well)


gus being gus with a giant punching ball on a back street of venice


gus feeding the pigeons


rich telling the pigeons (that he is remarkably afraid of) to part in his presence. it didn't happen.


sophie, being sophie, and getting really filthy.


gus, being gus


"¿que es eso?" (sophie's first encounter with nuns)



***(this is where things go downhill rather quickly)***

gus being forced into the hardest labor of his life, trying to get to the vaporetto stop


at the vaporetto stop; rich attempting to smile. we caught the later boat and then we missed our flight, which led to the discovery of unbreakable rule number three for travelling in italy with small children: DO NOT MISS YOUR FLIGHT.


gus, on our extra day of venetian vacation, at the airport

this is the rich we all got to spend 24 stressful hours with (fortunately, there is no picture of me as i look at least as bad)


and this is the sophie we got to spend 24 more hours with on the flights back home. that extra day kinda killed us!