Mushroom Festival In Maniago, Italy

We went and checked out the 35th Annual Mushroom Festival in Maniago

I had never seen poisonous mushrooms before!

This one grew between these rocks!

I knew there were different kinds, but these blew my mind!

They also had a plant show there.

They were showing TONS of different types of plants...

This is an Olive tree that they have made into a bonsai tree.

I love how they put all of the different plants in WINE bottles! Isn't that sooo Italian??

We had this vine growing near our home when I was a kid.

Don't they look like they are having a blast?? hee hee hee

I loved this flower!

And this one!

Overall it was very cool. Even though it was hard to read the names, because they were ALL IN ITALIAN, so we guessed what they were!

Something else that I found interesting was that they weren't selling any plants, just showing you what they had! In America it would have been a FESTIVAL... AKA food, drink, shirts, plants, etc. FOR SALE!

But in Italy it was more Informational!!

I enjoyed it!

Hiking In Maniago, Italy

One day while we were at Samantha's house we were all sitting around the kitchen table talking. Sam had let me borrow some books she had about Italy and of course, I was complaining that the hiking book didn't have any trails anywhere near her house! Everything was at least 2-3 hrs away!

So, she told us about a cool waterfall that was right near her home!

And that was the begining of our hiking adventure...

 Well, we started out looking for the waterfall,

we couldn't find the original path but we found this church and next to it...

there was a path.

So we decided to take it and see where it leads.

Sam and I took turns carrying Anaia up the hill!

Look what we saw.

This hike was quite a workout!

It was very neat. The kids kept wanting to go farther and farther. We went until we could go no farther.

Then we came back down and rested!