"George"......is that you?

Sorry for the absence, August was a busy month for us here in Germany. I had a three week vacation from language school so I tried to squeeze in as many little events as possible. I did a couple projects at home that I will put in the blog soon, we had some baseball games as usual, a few lunch guests, and the best part: our first family vacation to Lake Como, Italy (also known as George Clooney's summer home).

Lake Como is about a four hour drive from us that winds through Germany, Switzerland, Italy and every tunnel ever built....not really but kind of! I think we spent more time in tunnels than in the open air. It was my first experience with the The St. Gotthard Tunnel in Switzerland. It is the third longest road tunnel in the world stretching 16.4 kilometers or in American terms, 10.5 miles. It took a long 25 minutes to drive through, but we made it to the other side safely. Praise God!

Imagine 25 minutes of nothing but this....glad that is over!

After a stressful drive through every tunnel and some of the smallest Italien roads I have ever seen, we reached our destination: Domaso, Italy. It is a small town in the north west corner of Lake Como and is the capital for Wind Surfing. We stayed in a camping site along the lake and rented a small bungalow for three nights. It turned out to be pretty nice and just enough room for us. 

Looks just like George's House, right?!?

The best part was that it was close to the water and who can beat that view?

In the afternoon we were able to rent a small power boat to ride around the lake and take in the sights. This was by far Stephen's favorite part of the trip...can you tell by the look on his face? 

It was a lot of fun riding with the wind in your face and soaking in the sunshine. I thought for sure this would be our chance to see you know who....George! 

Every big boat we saw we presumed George was probably on it; and I think we saw about 15 houses he "probably lives in!!" To no avail we did not see him while on the boat but we did enjoy the ride.

But don't worry, all hope was not lost for finding George....we took a day trip to another popular city on the lake, Bellagio. We opted for a ferry ride rather than risking our lives on the tiny Italian roads and safely arrived after an hour and a half. The ferry was fun to sit and look at all the port cities....we even saw what was probably "Goerge's Grandma's house".....I mean there was an old lady on the balcony, it had to be her right?

We walked around the streets and ate some pizza for lunch...we didn't want to be too full when George invited us to his villa for hors d'oeuvres. 

And yet even though we saved room, George did not call us! So we settled for a ferry ride home and a relaxing afternoon on the beach.

And to finish the night we played cards and kept all the over 65 crowd up laughing in our tiny bungalow. It was better than hanging out with George any day!

When we got home I was messing around on the computer and saw this:

The recently single actor (George) hosted a group of friends – including pals Cindy Crawford, her husband Rande Gerber, as well as his The Ides of March costars Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood – at his Lake Como, Italy, villa over the weekend. 

Hahahah!! It should have been us! Hope you all had a nice summer break!