Roman Mainers: December 2013

The reason we decided to take our November visitors to Ostia Lido, was because we had been there just a week or two before they arrived. We discovered the beach town just after we had gone to Ostia Antica, where some of the most extensive ruins are. Aside from that, its just a really quaint town, with picturesque streets, a small castle, and a nice little old medieval Catholic church.

We got of the train and tried to get our surroundings, but this map, was all we had. And there was no "You are here". Or English. Oh well.

We explored the town for a little, and I'll just let the pictures talk for themselves.

Said Castle. Only open for one hour on Thursday

The medieval church was completely without frills. It was the first that I had seen like that. Just

Say a little prayer for me

The one picture in the church. Very beautiful.

And of course, more playground shots.

It was a pretty hot day so we went to the beach....if only we had swim suits with us!

Traditional Italian Tiki Hut

That's pretty much it...not much to it. (I'm just too behind here)

Happy Birthday Ems!

Emma's favorite birthday present! Visitors!

Due to technical difficulties, I am I at least a month behind in putting up our photos. So we're going to take a trip back in time, into early November. Grandma and Pop Pop came for Emma's 3rd birthday. We started the morning opening her presents and playing with them, especially the remote control car.

Stella's really rooting for the car

As usual, it's really hard to watch a kid who has no idea how to work the controller keep running into walls, but we retained ourselves and let her have her fun.

You can probably guarantee we just set that right in front of her for the 20th time.

Stella needs her morning milk before she can have any endurance for this.

One happy girl.

Then we hopped the train station to go see the ocean... Well, its actually the sea. Because in November, it's still warm enough to swim in. If your from Maine.

Best seat in the house.

We had to take some sketchy elevators.

"Hold on for dear life!"
OK, it's not that bad. Just very "decorated".

We're definitely from around here.

Once there, we hit the first playground we saw, given it was her birthday and all.

Emma is quite the climber. And now, a month later we see that Stella was getting her practice here. She now uses her skills on the kitchen table.

Little Miss Long Legs.

Already a speed demon

I love that little smile

Say Cheese!

After walking the streets, hitting a market, and looking at the sea (not swimming *sigh*) we needed some lunch. The town seemed like a deserted beach town, because well, it was. Some restaurants were open, but a lot of the places were shut down for the season. We did find one, where we could shoot outside, even though it was surprisingly cold that day.