Rings The Seagull
I was out for a bike ride on the Silver Strand in Coronado, and found a seagull by a dog park. When I noticed that it was flopping around, we called SeaWorld and three people and a truck came out to rescue him. They got …
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The Classy Glassy Adventure
Murano is a totally awesome island in Italy. It is home to the famous Venetian glassblowing; I got to see a cup and a horse being made. I also got to try glassblowing myself. At first I was nervous because I did not think that …
“Merry” Cool Slow Shutters
I have taken lots of slow shutter pictures in my life. A slow shutter picture is when you set the camera’s shutter to open the light path for one second or more. It creates amazing streaks of light shooting through the pictures like lasers. If you want to see more of my slow shutter pictures, check out my “The Boats of Venice” post to see the streaks of light from the passing boats at night. I decided to use our Blue Noble Christmas Tree (with bird ornaments and ornaments that came from where we travelled, although you cannot see it here because the light does not let it in) to take these slow shutters. Christmas trees don’t move, so this probably wouldn’t have worked without this technique that I learned from our friend Michelle Knaier. This technique requires you to move the camera in a circle and/or move the zoom in and out while taking the picture. Here are a few of my pictures. I hope you like them.
A Very Unique Style of Glass Blowing
I think Vittorio Costantini is the best glass blower in all of Venice (he is better than all of the glass blowers in Murano combined)! He makes birds, bugs, and fish using a blowtorch on the main island of Venice. The blowtorch is so hot …
The Boats of Venice
Venice has boats instead of cars, so I decided to write a post about it. I got to ride on a ton of boats in Venice. The water taxi is the most expensive, the fastest, and the coolest boat in Venice (but the other boats were …
A Whole Lot’O Gelato
I ate at a ton of gelato cafes during my trip, but here are my top five. Europe’s gelato is the best I’ve ever had! Even though Italy is famous for it, Slovenia’s gelato is awesome too. Because I am about to move on to Italy on my blog, I decided that this would make a perfect connector.
1. Gelateria La Romana: This place had the best gelato that I’ve had in my life!!! I had biscotto della nonna (traditional Italian biscuits and cocoa shortbread mixed in a sweet cream gelato). I had this amazing gelato in Verona, Italy.
2. Vigò: Vigò is in the center of Ljubljana, Slovenia. I had vanilla with white chocolate sauce glazed on top. Yum! We went here twice because it was my favorite gelato place in all of Slovenia.
3. Gelateria Il Doge: I had vanilla with chocolate chunks in it… aka, stracciatella. This place was on the Campo Santa Margherita in Venice. If you walked out of Campo Santa Margherita in a certain direction you will find the Frari Church.
4. SuSo: They had amazing hazelnut sauce here. SuSo was near the Rialto Bridge. SuSo is a very fancy gelato cafe. Mom asked if we could get the hazelnut sauce to bring home, but it came in a glass jar and dad said it would be one more thing to potentially break (plus it turns out that it likely would have been confiscated at the airport, which is what happened to our jars of honey).
5. Gelateria Nico: This gelato cafe in Venice was facing the Giudecca. I had stracciatella and tres leches and they were amazing. (While we were here, dad taught me a trick that our friend Joe Busby taught him… if the banana gelato is white it is likely to be high quality, but if the banana gelato is yellow it is fake and/or low quality).
I hope that you enjoy my upcoming posts about Venice and Verona.
Our Family Photo Shoot in Soča River
In Soča River we had our photos taken by Samo Rovan. He had great technique and was very funny (and the windows on his car did not have a child-lock so I was able to open my own window and feel the breeze in my …
Horseback Riding in Soča River
I went horseback riding in Soča River and it was awesome! I learned how to turn, stop, go, and balance. (Thank you to the instructor who taught me this, I don’t remember your name, but you were great.) My horse’s name was Aura and she …
Soča River Rafting
I went rafting in Soča River two times.
We had a water fight as we cruised down the river. I smacked my paddle against the water like a beaver’s tail and doused the other boat with water!
The river was fast, bumpy, and had huge rocks which created enormous rapids.
The river was freezing cold and crystal clear.
The first time we went, we pulled up to a rock, flipped the boat over, pulled it up onto the rock, and created a slide. At first I was nervous, but then I liked it.
Rafting in Soča River is awesome! Thank you Casi, Petra, Jofo, and Laci for adding tons of excitement to our trip. If you want to see and learn more about the company we used, click here: Soca Rider.
A Publication About My Publication
Good news, I got published in the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s magazine! I got published with a picture of a red-winged blackbird and a poem (I created them last school year). To see my poem and picture click here: BirdSleuth 2017 and then click on the green “Click …
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