Historical Thursday: "Fontana Di Trevi"

Helloooo!

No clue how you all are feeling but I'm so weighed down by all the tragedy in the US these past couple of days. So glad I don't have any friends by where the explosion happened!

I thought we could take a trip away from here and visit a lovely site in Rome, Italy. The Fontana Di Trevi ( The Trevi Fountain). This is one of my favorite places in Rome.

Isn't this so gorgeous? Couldn't you sit here for hours and enjoy the water sound and the people watching? If you answered yes to both, you're my kind of a person! 

The fountain was first commissioned to be built in the 1600s but never went beyond the sketch phase. It was picked up a Century later and finally finished in 1762.

The fountain is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most recognized in the world!

The man standing in the middle of the fountain is Neptune, god of the sea. He is riding a chariot, in the shape of a shell, pulled by two horses. The horses are both being led by a Triton. The horses symbolize two aspects of the sea, one is really calm, right side, and the other is very aggressive, left side. 
The statues on either side of Neptune stand for abundance, left, and health, right side. 

These pictures do not do the fountain any justice..it's so darn beautiful! It was actually restored in 1998 that's why it's so bright and shiny. Along with a cleaning all the cracks were also fixed.

Here's me being my smiley self right after I threw my coin into the fountain. Legend has it that you will come to the Rome again if you throw a coin over your back into the fountain. I will throw another 20 coins if it'll get me back to that beautiful country! 

I looked it up and an estimated 3,000 Euros, $3,900, are thrown in to the fountain everyday.. that's just insane. I hope they put that money to good use.

Today's post was short and sweet but I hope informative!

With All My LOVE,

Pati

So Long.. I'm gone..

So I've been counting down the minutes until this weekend! The boy

and I are headed to Austin for the weekend. We have absolutely nothing planned except for a brewery

tour on Saturday. This is the way I wish all my trips were.

I love walking around and enjoying the scenery!

Plus if you've never been, the Texas hill country is amazing.

I cannot wait to move back to that area!

Can Blue Bonnets be any more beautiful? Of course it's not spring right now. Bummer.

Either way the rolling hills and the beautiful land that you encounter is gorgeous.

Makes me euphoric just thinking about it!

Via

Pedernales Falls State Park is so amazing.

I"m hoping the boy will let me whisk him away and hike for a bit sometime this weekend. He's not one  for much adventuring onto uneven ground. Don't worry.. nothing a smile and a pout won't fix. haha. 

If I could live forever in the wilderness I would take that life in a heart beat. 

I am however as much a city girl as I am a country/wilderness girl. So this wilderness would need to be close to a city.. reason 39349483 why Austin is awesome!

As if the city wasn't amazing enough.. there's art and music everywhere. So inspiring.

I'm hoping to come across tons of little murals while I"m there and photograph them for you guys!

The one above is probably one of the best known ones around the city but there's so many, many more.

Eep! Friday can't come soon enough.

With all my love,

Pati

Disney-rama

Hello again! Been here and there and everywhere the last couple of days. Finally sitting down for another post.

So..you know how I told you about my love for Disney? Well we just went there for Thanksgiving weekend and I wanted to show you 

some awesome pictures I snapped of the minions.

So first of all let me tell you they had absolutely NO idea that they were headed to Disneyland! These first couple of pictures were from when we finally got to the hotel. It was
too hard to keep from them at this point.

Noah is so excited that he started to run circles around where we were. I was so happy for them!

So these are just some random shots from the whole trip. We had toooooo much fun.

Cannot wait until the next time we're there.

California Adventure. Right after this picture they rode on their first roller coaster.

Bummed I didn't snap a picture of them next to it.

A family pic. That belt looked so awkward. Oh well. I loved my little hat!

A Bugs's Life land. Everything in here was A-mazing.

The whole family. Can you tell I"m completely the opposite of everyone else? haha.

Learned something new about my little man. He's obsessed with Woody. He carried his little friend around everywhere.

Probably my favorite shot of the whole trip.

Watching a parade. Our favorite

One of my favorite rides was their favorite. I have such nerds for children.

As an adult.. this ride is not MY cup of tea.

Leaving the hotel. Had to have a pic with Santa himself.

I seriously will be saving up for another trip soon. Wish we lived closer to the HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH.

Hope you enjoyed some snipets of our trip.

With all my love, 

Pati