Friday, February 22, 2008

Day 43-48 - Southern Trip (Part I: Portraits)

The serious photographs will have to wait for later, because beyond beautiful, Sicily was a lot of fun!


Me, Libby and Francis atop Monreale Cathedral complex. The view of Palermo that sits between the foot of two hills, facing the sea, was splendid... but being tourists as we are all we care about is taking pictures of ourselves!


Isa and Summer.

A lot of things were explained to us by the knowledgeable and well-connected Marco... although I feel that much of the time, we hear them without absorbing much... like gaping at the wind... like Aaron's face right there (I think this is what Americans call 'Deer at the headlights'? ahahaha).

Mira was playing with a piece of rag that was covering a window on a house in Pompeii. Who knows what is she imagining... but the fun with this rag on the wind was so fun that she has to be coaxed to walk away from it. Travelling with Prof. Neema's children makes us really happy, because they are so energetic, bubbly and... cute! (They say that traveling with these prof's kids has inspired us to have childrens ourselves. Ah. Perhaps).


Emma (looking like a shocked supermodel), and Kirin (Neema's other tireless child)

Maria... no, wait, that's not her...It's Marvin!

Ale fresh & Ale tired. It's one scary murderous look there.

*snore*

Peek-a-Boo Andrew

Kate sporting a mafia look. It scared me for a while... before,

Prof. Neema and her students at what was Gibellina. (The most common response to this picture is "Neema's going to kill you!")


We run through most of the cities we visited and usually we don't have the time to explore to our heart's content. But Gibellina Nuova was such a ghastly empty modernist town that we finally have time to get bored and just perch around (and that's got to be the sweetest pic of Patrick).


Family picture! This is so sweet, no? except I was missing behind the lens!

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