Where I'm Staying

My cousin recently sent me some photographs of his house so I could see what it was like over there. I must say, the furnishings are a completely different style than that of North America, but the courtyards are very nice. The architecture is fascinating (his father's an architect), and as you can see below, picture frames decorate every wall.



Here is the courtyard:



This is a view of the house from the front:



And this is the family on Zia Nina's birthday a few years ago.

The 15-year-old fashion designer is the giganto ragazzo in the back, there, with the glasses. His mother Marisella is to the left, and his Nonna behind the cake. In the striped shirt is Pasquelino, his 24-some-odd brother who just got married last year, and the last is Marco, his other brother, who has cerebral palsy like my Zio Rocco, and who has hair identical to my Scottish Dad.

Silly, eh?