Su ay and Monday, June 17 and 18onT

Now, I hope to catchyou up a bit in our escapade.   Waking up very early on Sunday morning was so wonderful.  It was about 5 am and the sun was just starting to brighten the sky.  I laid in bed and listened to crowing roosters and many tweeting birds, and noisy pigeons.  Suddenly I sat up in bed, what was that?  was I dreaming?  No, I wasn't...It happened again... it was definitly coo-coo, coo-coo!  Just like I had heard so many times on an animal sounds tape whih we played in the toddler room.  I actually heard a real coo-coo bird.  Oh Joy!  Another wonderful benefit of travel.  So we begain to list things that we heard and saw in beautiful Umbria.  Besides the Coo-coo, we went to sleep to the quiet baaing of sheep and gentle ringing of their bells,  we heard an angry donkey yelling about some insult to her life.  We saw several red, black andgreen lizards scurrying  about thecoutyard,  we discovered a preying mantiss eating something inthe grass, it had different coloring  than its American cousins And it had fuzzy antenae.  Every morninga huge bumble bee checke thed out the vines growing around the door and later in the afternoon we would see orange bees in the lavendar. Later in the week a hugehumming bird moth joined in the search for nectar.  This is not to overlook the various ...

SUnday found us in the car driving back to spend more time in Todi.  This tiime, however, we parked the car at the bottome of the walls and took th vunicular up into town.  That was fun anda lot less exhausting.  We visited the Church on the plaza and then went back to the car and drove to a huge church down below called, Church of Santa Marie the Consolazione. (my spelling seems to need help...sorry.  

  Back at the ranch, we had dinner and then went for a long walk, down the little road that went past our place.  WE wanted to see the sun setting over the mountains .  It was a great walk.

Then home again and time for a snack and bed.