Graduation

Friday the 30th, Ryan officially graduated from the Florence Academy of Art. But still has 3 weeks of school. If I haven't said it already, I'll say it again, FAA is the best classically trained school to go to in the world. That's why we're here, only the best for our little RyRy. We got a babysitter and our cousin, Sydney, Ryan and I went. It was in a really cool garden of some royal family in Florence and they also had it catered with yummy food. Ryan got some recognition that I was very surprised and proud about. He received "best painting of the year" and the prize was a nice frame and then they gave him an award for being such a hard worker and having a good attitude in the studio. It was a dinner for 2 at a restaurant that just happens to be right next to the apartment we lived in back n 2003. cool, huh?

Best Painting of the year


Dinner for 2

getting his certificate




On the beach blog, I got comments about how I never appear on the blog. Well, I thought for sure after graduation there would be a picture of me to post. Nope. Then Sydney and I were going to Venice today and I figured of course I would get a picture of me in Venice. Well as my bad luck would have it, the trains are on strike today and no Venice trip. It's good to save the money but I was looking forward to a nice day trip with Syd and seeing Venice one last time. Maybe tonight at our picnic I'll get a photo?? I'll leave you in suspense.