tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17204567630503771642024-03-20T14:04:29.186-05:00Rambling OnThe Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.comBlogger163125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-70872248116204597182019-11-01T13:51:00.003-05:002019-11-01T13:51:48.488-05:00History in the Movies columnsThe url for my History in the Movies columns got moved. The new address is http://www2.stfrancis.edu/historyinthemovies/The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-46999664784568174102016-01-27T16:42:00.001-06:002016-01-27T17:01:02.319-06:00New author website!I am currently completed revisions on a novel (Middle Grade contemporary fantasy - ala Harry Potter or Narnia) and I am thrilled to announce that I am represented by Linda Epstein at The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency. <div><br></div><div>My author website can be found here:</div><div>http://cathyschultz.net</div>The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com0Joliet Joliet41.525292 -88.082651tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-83949594276364843032014-09-25T20:54:00.003-05:002014-09-25T20:56:24.269-05:00The route for our epic road trip!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-49312206534617483972014-07-06T22:53:00.002-05:002014-07-07T12:28:24.762-05:00Bethany's thoughts on the trip <!--[if !mso]>
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<![endif]-->I saw San Marco Piazza. I explored the Louvre. I stood inside
Sagrada Familia. I climbed the Rock of Gibraltar. <br />
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think these things or look back at the pictures, this month-long trip seems to
have happened in another life. But I did do those things, and I did them with my
favorite cousins.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC38ytnhT-WkCRuMW9fc_Cnn631WIFEG3uLHMfojrakvQiJCOU-L0AIl-wXwEYTu8OhhaqB0EZFOnGJII5atLiqvyh1x-YA-Q5mV1GHjMG_WUPnpL1IRmaFRheSK7OUmTstCp5SXzMmY8/s1600/beth+air.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC38ytnhT-WkCRuMW9fc_Cnn631WIFEG3uLHMfojrakvQiJCOU-L0AIl-wXwEYTu8OhhaqB0EZFOnGJII5atLiqvyh1x-YA-Q5mV1GHjMG_WUPnpL1IRmaFRheSK7OUmTstCp5SXzMmY8/s1600/beth+air.jpg" height="212" width="320" /></a></div>
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<u><span style="text-decoration: none;">My Month Long Family</span></u></div>
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If you’re looking for
knowledgeable and fun tour guides, Uncle Mark and Aunt Cathy are the people to
go with. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because both are veterans to European
traveling, they know the best gelato shops, the museums with smaller lines, and
easiest ways to get around town. And Uncle Mark’s ability to pick up languages
is amazing! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His endearing eagerness to
communicate and learn made him a favorite at most of the places we went.<br />
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country, especially Italy, she taught herself (and the rest of us) many
important phrases. She encouraged everyone to try foods that we wouldn’t find
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knowledge. Meal times were especially fun with his sharp wit and humor. While
sight-seeing at a castle, he would casually tell us of some fascinating, random
fact about the city’s ancient inhabitants.</span><br />
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and exemplified by his many selfies, was definitely the most enthusiastic. His
excited, care-free nature was infectious. His exuberant “Grazie!” became his
trademark. And most of the natives loved it.</span></span><br />
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When I got back to Georgia, I kept being asked, “Which city
was your favorite?” For a while, I couldn’t answer that question. Each city was
unique and so much fun to explore! There was no city I did not like.<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Assisi:</i> The
beautiful scenery coupled with a peaceful aura made this my favorite spot in
Italy. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was the perfect place to spend
our first few days in Europe. Twice we climbed up to the castle that capped the
mountain and soaked in the gorgeous view.<br />
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special! Paris was full of places to go to and things to see! And everything
was either a few minutes’ walk or a metro stop away. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Notre Dame, the Eiffel Tower, San Chapel, Pont
des Arts Bridge, and the Louvre were some of the amazing places we got to
visit. I could’ve spent a month simply exploring the city.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHgbbTA9tGpmSNJ4kM1gsCg-lK-62jMX1vnXQ0EPWp5FE1IY-5uFj4ugBIpMjDabU67NHZ72J0Izdd2YJZ6LK1cai3zm1yVGnsVqr-T6bEgKUaXjBIJSl_MzfPrfEC5I5N-VcmhMZoT7s/s1600/beth+ab.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHgbbTA9tGpmSNJ4kM1gsCg-lK-62jMX1vnXQ0EPWp5FE1IY-5uFj4ugBIpMjDabU67NHZ72J0Izdd2YJZ6LK1cai3zm1yVGnsVqr-T6bEgKUaXjBIJSl_MzfPrfEC5I5N-VcmhMZoT7s/s1600/beth+ab.jpg" height="213" width="320" /></a></div>
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favorite architect in the world! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Uncle
Mark has already posted a great blog explaining why he likes Gaudi, and I agree
completely. Where most people see architecture as something purely functional,
it’s fun to see how Gaudi played with shapes and drew inspiration from nature
to create a completely one-of-a-kind design!</span><br />
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The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-71305102008406004142014-07-06T00:16:00.001-05:002014-07-06T00:56:05.803-05:00Some Forgotten Pictures From Annie (Final Part)<br />
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After we split with Dad and Brennan in Paris and the four of us jumped a cruise, I thought that I had lost my personal sketchbook (I hadn't) and became gloomy. Bethany and Nate in the meanwhile decided to take dozens upon dozens of sugar-fueled pictures, trying very hard not to let me ruin their cruise for them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dad's taking pictures. Mom and Brennan disapprove. Mom on the account she is laughing about imaginary cat hostels and Brennan on the account he is Brennan. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We were at a fortress in Province. All three of us didn't want to be there on the account there was hardly anything to do, it's a long walk from one cannon to another cannon, and the temperature was Boiling degrees Fahrenheit. We all split up. Nate and I uncovered a shady alcove carved into the side of the cliff, and we cooled off in peace there for a while. Unfortunately, we were finally discovered by Mom and her camera. We all had our own ways to deal with a crisis. </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My smile shrinks as the man continues to dance</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I snapped the best part of Mom's Roman Panarama just for you. (who am i kidding, it was all for me i mean look at it)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This gelato shop in Rome was fabulous. The guy running it was great, and they had tons of flavors... Including.... Ladies and Gentlemen, you may not be able to read it, but the man is holding up one of the gelato title plates, the flavor of <i>"Viagra." </i></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It rained recently, so as you walk along the Roman Aqueduct pathway, you will eventually encounter deep puddles. Those of us who weren't wearing sandals took off their socks and shoes to continue on. While we were turning back, Brennan encountered where he had placed his said belongings and instead of leaning down in the pathway to put them on, he decided to <i>sit on the railing in the middle of the aqueduct to put on his shoes. </i>I nagged and nagged at him because there was quite frankly no reason to do that at all. When Dad finally caught up, he was cautious as well, and told Brennan to get off. In this picture, Mom asked Brennan to pose in front of the aqueduct. I ran up behind him to photobomb it with the frustrated gesture shown here, in order to demonstrate what an imbecile he is so I can always remember when I look back at this. </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-87427195484588775302014-07-05T21:35:00.001-05:002014-07-08T13:46:37.474-05:00Some Forgotten Pictures From Annie (Part III) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>(Excuse my immaturity for this story but I really can't help myself.)</i> At Monet's garden, the surprisingly loud battle cries of two male frogs rang through the waterlily ponds. With their battlegrounds as the pads, they raged, they flopped, they... took turns squashing each other rather awkwardly... The tourists, the crowds -- they oohed and aahed and made videos for youtube. Eventually one surrendered while he could still swim away with his dignity intact, and the champion was later discovered having equally loud sex with a female. The End.<br />
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trekking around Monet's garden, we returned to the gift shop, where Nate,
Bethany and I grabbed the nearest couch before any other elderly folks
could take it, and literally fell asleep for half an hour while Mom and
Dad scrounged the store.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The only thing that would make the boy smile was if he could punch us .. and Mom said "take one for the team"</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Did I mention I'm a serious person? ... Look at this picture of Hermaphroditus .. Oh God, Mom's gonna kill me again ... but look --it's so funny</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mom's going to warp-speed so she can go find a better family out in the stars --- one who won't ruin her pictures</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Twice on this trip, Mom became super giggly about two particularly jokes. Both involved cats. They both made her laugh until she cried. The entire family still has no clue why, but seeing her coming apart over the idea of our cat Pippin crawling along the ground with one of those scooters for fat people, or about me running a cat hostel (I said it with a straight face) was flippin' awesome. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I have no clue what's happening in this chain of events ...</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-50511392927986129662014-07-05T20:56:00.002-05:002014-07-06T00:30:50.661-05:00Some Forgotten Pictures from Annie (Part II) This isn't funny, I just thought it was one of the nicest pictures we took, and I don't think it's on the blog yet. Assisi, watching the sun set, with a castle behind us, the town and wheat fields before us...and some great gelato in our near future. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even better than Brennan's "done" faces are Nate's... ...well, I invite you to add your own caption: ("I love to be meeeee!" face) ("highly caffinated" face) ("Calvin & Hobbes" face) ("I know something you don't know" face) ("Wait for it... Wait for it...") ("I have a squirrel in my pants") ("What would happen if I kissed the guy on my left?")</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nate has lots of selfies where he grabbed the nearest person and gave you .001 seconds to react before he snapped a picture.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Carcassonne was the best place to do a freeze-frame jump.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The type of photo you'd expect an expert to take, and for strangers to rip off the internet to make into their cellphone backgrounds. Dang, Nate, you look as good as a Christmas card. </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Y'know how all llamas have that one smell, that one super musky, sweaty, pee-rotten type of smell? Well that's how my Carcassonne cheese tasted. I am not overplaying this, or just comparing it to something bad. I am saying that my cheese very literally tasted how llamas smell. Of course, I had everyone try a bit. And then Dad ate the rest of the cheese, because he's dad.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not only do these lovely pictures reflect our boredom while driving, but I'd like to call attention to the fact that while this was ongoing, we were in traffic for half an hour, in front of a Mount Blanc toll booth to go from Italy into France. We had several families in cars staring. Even funnier than Brennan, Nate and me is Bethany, who is just trying to remind us of her existence. Silly Bethany! </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ok. Maybe I should stop looking at this in an embarrassing way, and wonder if this is how Brennan was always seeing all of us during this trip, and that's why he constantly pretended he didn't know us. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dad just ate squid or something. Bethany looks uncertain. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In Florence, at the Leonardo Da Vinci museum, Nate and I decided to have some fun, and I drew Dad on the visitors book. When I come back, Someone drew a response! (below)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I dunno what it says, but they drew it staring at my picture, so I drew a new picture of Mom looking back saying "hi friend" and challenged their picture of Da Vinci by drawing Dad's hair long and turning him into another Da Vinci. I also crossed out him saying "boyscouts" and replaced it with "I hate Michelangelo." </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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Fun Times. The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-10275985841677600492014-07-05T19:56:00.001-05:002014-07-06T00:18:40.396-05:00Some Forgotten Pictures from Annie (Part I)Annie again.<br />
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Before I lose motivation for writing on this blog, (God knows it won't last, sorry-- I know you will miss me terribly) I wanna add some pictures of worth that Mom and Dad didn't think to add.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nate had his back to Mom while she was taking pictures, so she must have told him to turn around and-</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">30 seconds after they sit down and Dad is already making every stranger around him laugh, charming everybody.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">He's making immediate friends with another guy from Granada, and Nate is doing a pretty good reflection of how I feel</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You wanna know why a good solid chunk of our Italy pictures have me with my face in an Italian phrasebook? First day in Europe, Italy: we stop by at a gas station, can't speak more than three words of the language. Guy at the desk is getting frustrated, we're all speaking English at him, we're holding up a growing line behind us, and I'm in the corner about to either hyperventilate or violently strangle Nate because he's the one who studied Italian. Apparently, the next time they went in, Nate was much much better, but I wasn't there for it. My first purchases ended up being an energy drink and a phrasebook, and I was traumatized into studying up like the S.A.T exams were tomorrow.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These two pictures in a Moroccan styled restaurant can summarize 80% of the trip. Me and Nate being hooligans, often roping Bethany into our shenanigans, and Brennan isolating himself from us and pretending he <i>has </i>no family.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nate wanted to smoke this. Mom said no. Dad said maybe. Waitress said come back in four years. </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brennan uses his eyes to describe how excited he is to have Nate as his plane ride buddy. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Which country coined it first, I wonder? </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I literally cannot get enough outta these "Brennan is done with the _______<i>(choose one: world/family/vacation)</i> faces" in all these family photos.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The funniest thing Brennan was good for on this trip, really, was just taking the best selfies than any other person I know</td></tr>
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<br />The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-15009641320674312022014-07-04T16:43:00.000-05:002014-07-05T19:56:13.807-05:00Heyaaa, Annie's turn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Coolest spot of Europe? Southern Spain. And specifically? Granada. </div>
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Imma do some 'splaining for you lot. </div>
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So we get to Granada, and it don't taste like Barcelona no more. Which was nice, cuz I dunno, Barcelona somehow gave me the familiarity of Joliet. With 20% fewer English speakers than Joliet, more dogs/dog pee, and feeling like you 'bout to be pick-pocketed instead of gonna be mugged. </div>
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When we first get here we're still kinda wary of getting pock-picketed, and when we park, some dude from the dumpster side of town is hanging around our car like he wanna make off with our suit cases or somethin, giving us a stink-eye and dad stink-eyes back and it's really awkward and we dunno where to really go but then we find our place, and it's like, the Hostel is cute and looks like some thirteen year old girl with the hippest fashion sense on the block decorated it cuz it has all this random decorations like stars and weird paint styles and curtains everywhere blowing in the breeze and there's computers and teenagers everywhere and a lounge with Salvador Dali type-chairs and the type. In the center of the lounge there's this odd plastic bird bath sort of thing with fake lilipads. I don't even know. </div>
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We chitter chatter with the sweetest English/Spanish speaking receptionist from Czechoslovakia and go up to our rooms. At the top floor, Bethanny and I jackpot with the swig-swaggiest crib- and not just any crib; the table-flippin' <i>penthouse</i>. </div>
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You may not tell, but it has like seventeen corners, four rooms, and
maybe six beds (a bunk-bed a king size bed, okay that was an overstatement) (but I need to stress to you how cool this was). And a staircase. But MOST importantly, desk that just <i>spills </i>creativity as if Mark Twain,
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Speaking of which, that's the next part of our grand adventure. We stay at the hostel for a few hours, because <i>(holy crap it's a really good hostel) </i>and then visit the fortress at night, to avoid crowds. It's pretty mesmerizing, and oozes symmetry. Since I've been using lots of similes, it's sort of like a video game type of temple, with everything computer generated it's so perfect. </div>
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Next day, we hit the Alhambra's garden. Also very symmetrical. And pretty. Everything is all natural and lovely and full of critters. </div>
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LIKE <i>SKINKS </i>THERE ARE SKINKS LITERALLY EVERYWHERE IN THIS GARDEN I'VE BEEN WANTING TO CATCH SKINKS SINCE THIS SUMMER STARTED I DON'T KNOW WHY BUT I DO WITH THE DESPERATION OF A MOM FROM TODDLER'S AND TIARAS IT'S LIKE THE SPIRIT OF STEVE IRWIN JUST ATE ME AND I STILL HAVEN'T CAUGHT ANY HERE I AM INTERRUPTING A FAMILY PICTURE TRYING TO GRAB ONE</div>
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AND HERE'S THE BUTT OF A MONSTEROUS WATER SNAKE IT WAS GOING BACK INTO THE POND WHEN WE TOOK THE PICTURE SORRY. </div>
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But doesn't it <i>MAKE YOU WONDER how many DANG GIANT WATER SNACKS ARE IN ALL THE ALHAMBRA'S ******* PONDS??? </i><br />
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LOOK LOOK THEY HAD THIS LONG BEAUTIFUL STARICASE WITH JUST WATER FLOWING DOWN THE RAILINGS AND FOUNTAINS AT EVERY PIT STOP IT WAS SO MUCH FUN I SPLASHED EVERYTHING IT WAS ROCKIN I WANNA LIVE IN ONE OF THE BUSHES HERE AAAAAGGGGGHHHHhhhhhhhh </div>
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Anywho, back to the city life of Granada, I don't know if it was just for today cuz an event happened or it's all the time, but check out this CORNY ANACHRONISTIC PIECE OF PICTURE RIGHT HERE. <br />
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Anywho, Granada was cool, the people were chill, I got killer Muslim kind of M.C. Hammer pants from it, food was my typo food, the Gelato was better than Rome's by twenty thousand points, and it was incredible. So much so that when/if Imma ever move out of America, I may just have to do a coin flip to see if I'm packing bags to Canada or Southern Spain. May depend if I've learned Spanish by that point. </div>
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Weird looking art. (sorry for the grainy photos). The trick to finding stuff like this is to look at big, busy, Renaissance paintings and focus on the people in the corner. That, or just look at a random sidewalk in Paris (as was the case with the naked sumo wrestler at the top). The worst offenders of looking stupid, in many cases, were actually the baby Jesuses, They often looked like creepy man-babies, unfortunately. <br />
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And after all that we finally made it to Europe, the first thing we had on the checklist was to experience jet lag, then we had to get a rental car and drive to our first home -- Assisi. When we got there we stayed in a nice hostal, -- with three rooms for us. In Assisi we visited St. Francis's basilica, climbed a medium sized hill to get to a castle, and some other such things. Here are some pictures of us being in Assisi.<br />
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Next we spent a day in Florence, which was nice. I fed pigeons, and
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We went to France and Spain after this, but since Italy was my favorite, I'll stop there.<br />
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Arrividerci! The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-72430026848396423772014-07-02T16:03:00.000-05:002014-07-02T16:03:19.895-05:00Grandpa Don's doppelgangerFor the Schultz family members--In Granada, we saw this gentleman, and wondered if he's Grandpa Don's Spanish twin? :)<br />
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<br />The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-8207916692292439732014-07-02T00:24:00.004-05:002014-07-03T11:08:47.150-05:00Morocco<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Brennan and I took 24 hours in Tangier, Morocco. We stayed in a lovely, centuries old home with beautiful woodwork and tile. Unfortunately modern Americans are taller than Moroccans used to be. Whack. That is the doorway into the room. <br />
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The view from the roof of La Maison Blanche was lovely.At night, we could see the Mediterranean Sea so clearly, as the nearby dark patch beyond the lights. <br />
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We got to see many traditional craftsmen. This guy is hand-carving a new board to fit a beautiful woodwork decoration in an old mosque. A hammer and chisel, and beautiful patterns emerged. <br />
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The city has many decaying spots. Brennan and I wonder if we should step lively at this gateway to the coastline. <br />
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Speaking of stepping lively...<br />
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Beautiful carved doors of many colors. <br />
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There are communal ovens. The women bring the bread dough separated into loaves. This guy bakes it in a big oven, carefully keeping each woman's bread separate. <br />
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This man cuts tile and makes mosaics. <br />
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We got to see many weavers, spinners, leatherworkers, carvers, butchers, bakers...no candlestick makers. <br />
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These guys advertise their services as plumbers, electricians, etc by going to the market and setting up displays of the representative tools of their trades and waiting. No neon sign or phone needed. <br />
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The butcher shops were a bit more graphic and inclusive than in the states... Here are some cow parts we don't usually contemplate as food. <br />
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Touristy, yes, but fun!The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-14338741544331886202014-07-01T21:56:00.000-05:002014-07-01T22:25:16.144-05:00Mark: Fun with art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Europe is full of public and museum art which range from awesome to awful. Some art just seems to demand creative participation--at least from me. Here, we are in Grasse, in Southern France, where we actually stayed a night at the great house of Admiral de Grasse (who saved the American Revolution by teaming up with Washington to defeat Cornwallis at Yorktown.) And here is a really silly, pompous statue of the good admiral next to his house. It's like playing "Whose Line is it Anyway"! (In the last photo, Nate replayed the ET scene in which ET touches the boy's chest with his finger.) <br />
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And here we are at the Louvre, joining a Babylonian procession of servants rubbing their hands before the king. (I wanted to mimic the Gilgamesh statue in which he has a lion in the headlock, but none of my family would agree to be headlockee or headlocker.) <br />
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This is the Doge's palace in Venice. It turned out that Doges were the favorite artistic subject of the Doges. They were everywhere. This guy had the most impishly expressive face. I hope you can blow this up to see it. We suggested all kinds of captions for the photo. Suggest your own! <br />
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Ummm...only in Paris. Brennan and I were pleasantly startled to see this serenely confident gentleman positioned adjacent to the Pantheon. What could we possibly add to the humor of the scene? We gaped at the...art? Then hung out for about 10 minutes watching the reactions of passers-by. Hilarious! Many posed for photos. If I lived in Paris, I'd eat lunch here every day. <br />
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Also at the Louvre, Brennan mimics the expression of a very, very, very old greenish frog-lion. So, which face is cuter? The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-22967910937465820282014-07-01T18:41:00.003-05:002014-07-01T18:41:36.883-05:00Mark: What is so fun about travel?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When you travel, you open up your senses more than normal. You are ready to see and appreciate beauty, and to take time out for it. And for a historian, Europe is a joy, full of things you know about, but only as a picture in a book...and then you stand before them in person. Wonders. <br />
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Of course, the food is great. Everywhere. And that already inspired us
to cook a really good dinner since we returned. Why not? <br />
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You have to push yourself to communicate, but it is amazing how much you can communicate with only the basics of a language if you really want to. Being honestly interested in learning about people's culture, and what they think about world events makes folks willing to put up with your awkward constructions. It seems like people actually get funnier and more poignant when you have to communicate creatively. Strange, I find it actually easier to speak meaningfully with strangers outside the country than inside it. <br />
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You have to adapt to all kinds of challenges besides language. You have
to figure how to use funny-looking toilets like this one. (Oops!
Upside-down!) And the wide range of possible faucets, doorknobs, food,
Metro systems, toll booths, the bizarre traffic signals of Spain, and,
God knows, very different roads and driving customs. The crazily
narrow, U-turn winding cobblestone roads we drove in Assisi, Carcasonne,
and Granada blew my mind. Too narrow for any car, including the
rolling phone booths Europeans drive around in, and yet we wriggled
through. And then there was my hour of driving alone around the heart
of Rome, with a malfunctioning I-phone map. Fun, fun, fun! But, people
have navigated Rome before without modern technology...and it was a
fascinating puzzle to solve. <br />
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When you travel, you walk more, eat more, laugh more, learn more, live more. The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-71925180296251696222014-07-01T14:44:00.001-05:002014-07-02T15:38:25.524-05:00Mark's favorite day: Paris<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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My favorite time on the trip was a morning in Paris, in which Brennan and I jumped off the tour and did my favorite way of experiencing a new city: serendipitous strolling.</div>
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We popped out of a Metro stop in the middle of Paris and aimed at what our map called the "Open Air Sculpture Garden." On the way, we stopped into St. Sulpice (above). It is the second largest church in the city, huge, monumental, big-boned, with squared-off columns and limited light. We found that Blaise Pascal was buried there (bottom), and that the solstice line (depicted here on the left and in The DaVinci Code) actually exists there: a Enlightenment Era scientific study, not conspiracy-theory hocum. We left there and wandered a block into the Luxembourg Garden, the second biggest park in Paris. Huge, sprawling, and tightly manicured of course, but with charming small spaces, fountains, areas for children to play, shade for walking, and some sculptures. We really enjoyed the monument to Delacroix below. An old, muscular man is struggling to hoist a powerfully-built woman who in turn is straining to reach high enough to place a laurel before Delacroix's bust. Meanwhile, a young man sits and seems to be offering advice: "Just a foot higher!" <br />
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Next we found flowers that were planted so that they give the appearance of diagonal stripes, but only when seen from afar. Out of the garden, we popped for a moment into the Parisian Pantheon. (beige image below) Originally a church, it was converted in the Revolution into a burial site for the great and sometimes even for the foolish (Rousseau). It turned out to be the site of Foucault's experiment with a pendulum which demonstrated that the earth indeed rotates. Brennan enjoyed the swirling masses of photos of modern French faces that look down from the dome and up from the floor. How unexpected!<br />
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Just past the Pantheon, we found St. Etienne, which I'd never heard of. (It is the white image above that of the Pantheon.) Jumping in for about 5 min, we found it lovely, feminine, filled with light, and slender, light-colored, rounded columns and arches. What a contrast to St. Sulpice. Called away on rescue-duty, we never reached the Sculpture Museum, but we had so much fun talking and ambling toward it while letting ourselves get distracted by anything that we passed along the way. Great time! </div>
The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-66175097747421687922014-06-30T21:12:00.002-05:002014-06-30T21:12:31.521-05:00Brennan takes a call from his best friend while in RomeBrennan missed his friends quite a bit while we were traveling. and was bummed that he couldn't text or call as much as he'd like. So, he got a kick out of this call from his friend, Alex, on our last full day in Europe. (Alex thought he was home in Joliet already.) <br />
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<br />The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-24035612578835034762014-06-30T20:55:00.001-05:002014-06-30T21:16:07.603-05:00The Sistine ChapelIt's hard to fully appreciate Michaelangelo's Sistine Chapel when one is there. It's so crowded, for one. (and by the way, they don't allow you to take pictures inside, so all of these are from the internet.) <br />
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We found that knowing some the context helped make it more interesting. Our group most enjoyed learning of Michalangelo's act of revenge. Apparently, during the process of painting the chapel, a Vatican cardinal kept complaining about all the nude figures Michalangelo was painting, and suggested that Michelangelo's work was better suited for a tavern than the Vatican. So Michaelangelo painted him into his Last Judgement painting as one of the damned. And to add insult to injury, he made him naked. </div>
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When the cardinal complained to the Pope about this, the Pope shrugged and said he had juridiction over heaven only, not hell, and thus the painting would have to remain. </div>
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We also like spotting Michelangelo's self-portraits. He painted himself as the head of Holofernes (which Judith cuts off in the Old Testament story.) Annie was the one who spied it in one of the ceiling panels.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4YanTM-8x3-jc7h0jzVMIuDqWaQDAvmjqUBogRevSIe4OGUtdfSav_680hrpU2ef41k8b1j7KIAbrzVISGFMEbohjYuHJFmGKiLP3VaWMUUiIbTtRMZDSi-MQhPhSQm367AYQIcaI_lA/s1600/michelangelo_sistinechapeljudithandholofernesdetail2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4YanTM-8x3-jc7h0jzVMIuDqWaQDAvmjqUBogRevSIe4OGUtdfSav_680hrpU2ef41k8b1j7KIAbrzVISGFMEbohjYuHJFmGKiLP3VaWMUUiIbTtRMZDSi-MQhPhSQm367AYQIcaI_lA/s1600/michelangelo_sistinechapeljudithandholofernesdetail2.jpg" height="287" width="400" /></a></div>
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The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-54312049307590308232014-06-30T18:57:00.002-05:002014-06-30T18:57:48.363-05:00Gelato- our favorite Italian desertEvery day in Italy, we got some gelato. Molto bene! <br />
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<br />The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-29825782885943210222014-06-30T18:09:00.002-05:002014-06-30T18:09:27.673-05:00At the Vatican<br />
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<br />The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-64059065813991250212014-06-30T17:43:00.001-05:002014-06-30T17:48:54.666-05:00At a Roman cafeWe stopped at a cafe, and the woman who waited on us called Nate "molto bello" --very handsome. As you can see, he got a huge kick out of it.<br />
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<span id="goog_66855044"></span><span id="goog_66855045"></span><br />The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-49655670859721949322014-06-30T17:04:00.001-05:002014-06-30T17:11:53.490-05:00Mussolini's balcony <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Mark and Nate channel Mussolini before the balcony where he used to harangue the crowds.</div>
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<br />The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-59231596017220466222014-06-30T16:38:00.002-05:002014-06-30T20:20:30.243-05:00At the Colosseum<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<br />The Schultz Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08623489392017490585noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1720456763050377164.post-13516269621228689602014-06-30T15:52:00.000-05:002014-06-30T16:22:02.494-05:00a night at Admiral de Grasse's chateau<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On our way from Provence to Italy, we spent a night in a town called Bar-sur-Loup, at the Chateau de Grasse. It's a family run hotel in the ancestral home of Admiral de Grasse.<br />
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For history buffs, Admiral de Grasse was the French admiral who bottled up the English forces at the Battle of Yorktown, allowing the Americans under Washington to win. It turned out to be the last battle of the American Revolution. <br />
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The views from our rooms were amazing. (do you see Mark's head poking out on the left?) <br />
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We enjoyed meeting Henri, who runs the place with his parents<br />
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Before we left, Mark and the kids had fun with the statue of Admiral de Grasse. <br />
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