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11th to 15th October - The Cinque Terra

The kitchen of the apartment we stayed at in Manarola

View from our apartment

We were staying at the very top of the orange house

The vineyards of Manarola. People have been farming these terraces for 1,000 years

Manarola has some incredible deep-water swimming

The Via Dell'Amore, between Manarola and Riomaggiore

The beach at Monterosso

Part of the path between Manarola and Corniglia

The footpath zig-zags up nearly 400 steps to the town of Corniglia

A cat that convinced Gennie to feed part of her lunch to him

View from the hike between Monterosso and Vernazza

Vernazza from the hiking path

Some of the many cats that decorate the Cinque Terra

16th October - Seattle

On our return to Seattle, we found (amongst other things) this message on the whiteboard...

...and this fun present from Beth and JT.

7th to 11th October - Florence

The ceiling of the Baptistry

The Duomo

Giotto's tower

The top of the Duomo

Garden terrace outside our window

The Arno river

Pisa

1st October - The Old Consulate Inn, Port Townsend

3rd to 4th October - Milan

Milan's Duomo is the fourth largest Cathedral in Europe

Vittorio Emanuele Arcade

4th to 7th October - Venice

San Marco square

Murano

The Bridge of Sighs

The Ducal palace

Gennie eating the best Gelato in Venice - at 10am!

A walk in the arboretum

New York, 2nd September

Theodore Roosevelt's birthplace

Gennie and her brother Tom

New Haven, Connecticut, 3rd September

The wedding of Beth Goldsmith and JT Russell

Halloween

5th November - the wedding of Johanna Schaeffer and Kody Dickerson

Kathleen

Kristi

Nurit and Sean

Matt

Melissa and Matt

Aldo and Yarrow

Jeremy (who took most of these pictures) and his girlfriend Katie

Jo and her husband (then fiancee) Kody

Kathleen

Thus began the legendary dance-off between Tom and Bruno...

Christopher

Julian

Andy pouring champagne

Jo

Raymond

Kristen and Sarah

The cutting of the cake

Our first dance

Hattie

Dear friends from Barnes and Noble: Tahirah, Hattie, Linda, Meg and Marcus

Tom begins his quest to dance with every female at the wedding

Carrie and Joe

Jennie

Kurt dancing with Kitty

Kurt has known Gennie since they were 3

Janice, Theresa (Gennie's Mom) and Kathleen

The food (the sausage rolls were lovely... we heard!)

Nurit and Kylene

Nurit and her husband, Sean

The Bride and Groom arrive at the reception

The reception

Beth and her husband, JT

Philip and Kristen, and the Bride

Katie and Joy

Nishan

Ray

Xin and his wife, Jinwen

Amy

The cake: lemon cake with raspberry filling and a buttercream frosting

Gennie's bouquet

Meighan, one of the bridesmaids

The edible lego bricks (our wedding favours) turned out to be quite popular

Kitty, maid of honour

Some of Gennie's extended family

Meg

Bruno and JT

Michael

Claire and Lloyd

Rob and Claudine

Centerpiece

Chris, Val, Mike, Katherine (Paul's girlfriend), Paul

Michel and Tom doing their gangster impressions

Betsy the flower girl

Michel and Theresa walking down the aisle

Gennie's great aunt Fern and her daughter Kathleen

Mical, one of the bridesmaids

Father John Topol

Rich and Mel

Gennie expresses concern that we have the right rings

Gennie and Andrew Gibson!

Signing the wedding license

Gennie finds out that the place we were going to stay on our wedding night lost our reservation

The wedding party: Meighan, Mical, Kitty, Gennie, Andrew, Paul, Chris and Jim

The families: Kitty, Tom, Theresa, Michel, Gennie, Andrew, Mike, Val, Chris and Paul

The Bride and Groom