thankful thursday...getting lost in italy

today

we got lost

in italy!

and it was great!!

we choose to take 

the 

'non-toll'

roads

to 

padova

home of ikea!!

sorry, for the graininess of the pic 

but wanted to give you an idea of where 

we were going...

the first town...

mira, italy

this is a stolen pic

from 

{art.com}

mira was a nice town

it sat along the canal

and

had market today!

so it was a 

hoppin'

little town!!

second stop

was

dolo, italy

dolo 

also sat on the canal

it was another quiet town

that was littered with bicycles

i dreamed 

of 

a 

romantic getaway

to this town

but

we aren't 

romantic getaway type of people

i digress..

our third stop

was

stla, italy

it was by far

the largest

town we went through

and 

look who we saw

just kidding!

{the tourist}

was filmed in this town!

i stole this pic!! hehe!!

although

this town 

was not as quiet

as the previous two

i would not object 

to a weekend getaway

this will be a true test

to see if my wonderful hubby reads my blogs!

today

we took the back roads

avoided the autostrada

forgot about high gas prices

and

got slightly lost

but

we found ikea

its days like this 

i look around in amazement

and 

say

"i live in italy!"

smiling the entire time!

love from aviano