\nClose-up of leaf:
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![\"DSF0235\"](\"uploads\/2012\/19_1.jpg\")
<\/p>\n19_2<\/strong> Then on to Trento.<\/p>\n 19_3<\/strong> 19_4<\/strong> 19_5<\/strong> 19_6<\/strong> 19_7<\/strong> 19_8<\/strong> 19_9<\/strong> 19_10<\/strong> 19_11<\/strong> 19_12<\/strong> 19_13<\/strong> 19_14<\/strong> 19_15<\/strong> 19_16<\/strong> 19_17<\/strong> We flew home on Tuesday. The last two pictures are from Wednesday evening, when our office sponsored a Europe Day concert at the Auditorio de Alicante, a modern and quite nice concert hall. <\/p>\n 19_18<\/strong> 19_19<\/strong>
\nFloor of Alicante’s main concert hall:
\n![\"IGP4815\"](\"uploads\/2012\/19_2.jpg\")
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\nSunday morning, just before 10 a.m. The children are lined up to march into the church. Various emotions are on display:
\n![\"IGP4630\"](\"uploads\/2012\/19_3.jpg\")
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\nShow time–the children walk into the church:
\n![\"IGP4631\"](\"uploads\/2012\/19_4.jpg\")
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\nNo photography during the ceremony itself. Afterwards, the priest hands out large pieces of bread to the children who in turn distribute it to the adults:
\n![\"IGP4642\"](\"uploads\/2012\/19_5.jpg\")
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\nAfterwards, people stand around chatting outside the church. This is Dan with Ale:
\n![\"IGP4658\"](\"uploads\/2012\/19_6.jpg\")
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\nAle looking pensive:
\n![\"IGP4663\"](\"uploads\/2012\/19_7.jpg\")
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\nAfterwards, we drove to a restaurant high in the mountains overlooking Trento, where a lunch lasting several hours would be enjoyed. And of course Ale got her presents:
\n![\"IGP4668\"](\"uploads\/2012\/19_8.jpg\")
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\nAle and friend being photographed:
\n![\"IGP4677\"](\"uploads\/2012\/19_9.jpg\")
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\nAle and cake:
\n![\"IGP4688\"](\"uploads\/2012\/19_10.jpg\")
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\nAnother portrait of my cousin Dan. He is an anesthesiologist with a large group of doctors in Oakland:
\n![\"IGP4678\"](\"uploads\/2012\/19_11.jpg\")
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\nDan I share a passion for cycling, and conveniently he keeps two bikes in Italy. So the day after the communion we went on a 70 km ride along the Adige river:
\n![\"IGP4752\"](\"uploads\/2012\/19_12.jpg\")
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\nMonday night we had dinner at the house of Dan’s in-laws. Don Giancarlo built a successful business, distributing high-end Italian food to shops and restaurants on both sides of the Atlantic:
\n![\"IGP4761\"](\"uploads\/2012\/19_13.jpg\")
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\nThere is a very cute dog, Lilly. She is always hungry and therefore pays a lot of attention when something is happening in the kitchen–just like my own Cheeta:
\n![\"IGP4764\"](\"uploads\/2012\/19_14.jpg\")
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\nLilly also begs at the table in an extremely cute manner:
\n![\"IGP4759\"](\"uploads\/2012\/19_15.jpg\")
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\nTuesday morning, on the way to the airport, we stopped at the office of the Lapiana business. Here is Giancarlo with some old photos; the smallest of the newspaper boys is him:
\n![\"IGP4792\"](\"uploads\/2012\/19_16.jpg\")
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\nAnd this is Elena, Ale’s mother, next to a portrait of herself as a little girl:
\n![\"IGP4794\"](\"uploads\/2012\/19_17.jpg\")
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\nThe choir of the parents from the European School of Alicante. My wife is on the extreme right, next to the pianist:
\n![\"IGP4801\"](\"uploads\/2012\/19_18.jpg\")
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\nOf course, the final piece of music was Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, performed by orchestra plus three choirs. My wife is somewhere in there too:
\n![\"IGP4814\"](\"uploads\/2012\/19_19.jpg\")
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