A Week in Italy 🍝 Verona & Lake Como, an italian wedding, euro summer vlog pt.2

Good morning, we made it to Verona. My parents are here, help watch Peasy while we go to a wedding. How cute does your husband look? My husband looks adorable. I picked out his outfit, a linen set from Madewell Men and then I'm wearing a little linen set from Gap. It's supposed to be, I think the high is like 96 or 98 today, so we'll see how long we last. We decided to get out early to go for a little walk, find some coffee before it gets too hot and then we'll probably just go back to the apartment for the rest of the day. But so far this town is super cute. Lots of old buildings, restaurants, shops. Hey, double check girls, because it's all on you, are we missing anyone? We're going to do a horizontal first. Tres, dos, uno. Everybody look here. Mew, mew, mew, mew, mew, mew, mew. Ideal wedding party, no, ideal wedding welcome party situation. Pizza, wine, babysitter, aka my mom. We're rolling. Would you 10-10 order it again? I would. How's the wine? It's just so like light. The wine is pretty good. This is probably my like, I think it's my third glass. I had Aperol Spritz before this. And what time is it? I don't even know what time it is. I don't wear a watch on vacation. Oh my gosh, that chocolate is so good. Cheese. It's coming. Full glass there, Brittany. But you have to be part of the crew. We're back from a very chill day in Verona. To be honest, we haven't done much today because it is still insanely hot. I think it's the hottest it's been since we've been here. I think the high was like 98 or something today. The wedding last night was so much fun. They ended up having two shuttles. An early shuttle and a late shuttle. I think the early shuttle left at like 11.30 and the late shuttle left at like 2. And right before I wanted to get on the early shuttle, my husband was like, we don't know when we're going to another friend's wedding. Everyone is kind of already married now. This might be the last European wedding you ever go to. Totally guilting me into staying later. And a lot of other friends ended up staying later. So we stayed until the 2 a.m. bus. Which I am having regrets this morning. I think I woke up at like 8.45. Penelope still woke up early, but thankfully my parents are here so they could help out with her. So anyway, we just kind of passed around and did a little bit of shopping. Got some gelato and popsicles because it's just way too hot outside not to constantly be eating or drinking something cold. But while we were shopping, we walked by this little kid's store that had these customizable backpacks. I think it's called Bon Bon is the name of the store. I'll drop the address below in the description if you just happen to be in Verona and looking for a kid's backpack. I thought it was really cute. So we put Penelope's little nickname on here. Found these cute little patches and things that she picked out herself. It'll be super cute for her to take to school. So that was a fun little purchase that I was excited about. I found this top that just feels very soft, vintage-y, kind of looks like a handkerchief. I actually got it from Mango. And the way they had their mannequin styled it was really cute. So I think I'm going to try to recreate that tonight for dinner because it's so hot. I just needed something that feels very light. I'm going to wear some linen pants that are kind of see-through but wear a scarf around my waist to kind of hide and distract from that. So I'm going to get ready for dinner. Hi guys, good morning. We made it to Lake Como. I don't know if this hat is doing anything for me but I feel like I need some kind of shade or maybe I'll just wear some sunglasses today. Anyway, we made it to Lake Como. We drove, I think it was like a three-hour drive from Verona. We are so glad to be here because it was so hot in Verona. Let me get this set up. There we go. It was so hot in Verona and there was literally zero breeze and as soon as we got here, yes, it's very crowded and very busy but there is just the perfect breeze. Being right on the water is so nice. Our Airbnb is actually pretty cute. It's called Casa Nana I think and it kind of feels like a little grandma-y but I kind of love it. I'll put the link to the Airbnb posting below but the posting does not do this place justice. Even when my husband sent me this place just so I had an idea of where we were staying, I was like, oh, yeah, it's kind of cool. When we got here and I saw the view out the window, I was shocked. I was like, this place is so cute and I think it was around 300 euros a night which is kind of cheap for this area especially if you want to be up high with a view of the water. Let me show you the view really quick. I'm stunned. This is our view from the living room window. It's so pretty. I love that you can have a little bit of the terracotta roofs and then also some of the water and the mountains. It's just absolutely stunning. And then if we come over here, we have this little outdoor seating patio area with a view of the church clock tower, the mountains, the water. It's just so pretty and down below you can kind of see everybody that's just walking around having lunch, having breakfast. It's truly such a dream. It is very stunning here. It's already quite busy. We're staying in Bellagio and I think we're going to go over to Menaggio today. There's like three main cities. I think it's Bellagio, Menaggio and then another one that starts with a V. I don't think it's Bellagio but there's one that starts with a V and those are like the three that people will stay in and then bounce to another one. We're staying in Bellagio and we're going to go take a ferry over to Menaggio for the morning and day and just kind of check out a different town, do some shopping, walking around. That's kind of what we did when we got in yesterday since it was a little bit busy. We just went and got some sandwiches and just walked around the town a little bit. It's great for having a toddler. Penelope loves saying hi to all the people and climbing up and down the stairs and going down all these cute little side streets so hopefully I can film a little bit today and show you guys what the towns and cities look like. Very beautiful. I highly recommend already just visiting Lake Como if it's on your list. I will say it's going to be very touristy. A lot of the beaches have already been pretty busy and the streets are pretty busy but that's kind of what you get when you come visit Europe in the summer in general especially if you're coming to a city or an area that's really popular. Another thing that's pretty common to do is go to a beach club so we're going to do that tomorrow with P and see how it goes. I think the one that we're going to has a pool, has a kiddie pool, obviously has like lunch and drinks and we're just kind of, kind of, kind of, kind of we're going to kind of camp out there all day and hang out. I would like to kind of try to do a boat day situation but we might wait and do that until we're in Nice or Saint Tropez. So we might just do little beach clubs while we're here, walk around the town. It's just so cute to be able to walk through all the tiny little streets and corridors and just explore and putz around. I'm excited to take you guys around Lake Como because Verona was kind of a different experience. It was mostly just wedding stuff. We didn't really get out in the city much because it was so hot but here it's supposed to be much better. It's hot but it's still very windy and you have the water to kind of jump into when you need a break. Alright, we have an 8.30 ferry that we're going to try to catch so see y'all on the ferry. Whenever there's a playground, my daughter will find it. Ta-da! Just got back from Valero after a very nice day at the beach. We went to a beach club called Blanco and it wasn't busy at all I think because it's a Monday and now we just got home and there's a little afternoon rainstorm. It's honestly so calming. I did just send Joel out to go get some cheese because I was craving some cheese and as soon as he left it started raining. But we had such a great little day in Valero. It's a lot smaller than Bellagio. I don't even think I saw one little shop whereas here you have so many boutiques and shops and restaurants and cafes but Valero is very chill, very small and cozy and romantic feeling. So I also feel like that would be a great place to stay if you want something a little bit more low-key. Bellagio is definitely a little bit more bougie, high-end. Kind of reminds me of Capri if you've ever been to Capri. A lot of restaurants, a lot of shopping. We also didn't know that some of our friends from the wedding were staying in Valero so it was kind of nice we met up with them and just kind of had some other adults to talk to which is always nice when you're on a family vacation. Also now that we are a week into our family vacation I just want to touch on if I'm glad that we brought Penelope or if I wish that we would have left her at home because a lot of our friends are kind of doing this trip too since there was other people at the wedding and they decided not to bring their kids and just go solo. I will say those parents are doing much shorter trips. A lot of them are doing a week, maybe a week and a half. I think we are definitely staying the longest out of all of our friends except for one friend that's completely single and doesn't have a spouse or kids at all. She's doing three weeks which totally don't blame her. I would do that too if I was solo traveling. And so far it has been really fun. I love seeing her explore these new cities and I feel like you always hear this notion of like they're not going to remember. Why bother bringing them? But I do think that she is subconsciously taking in so many different cultures and experiences. She's already saying a lot of phrases in Italian which is so cute. And don't get me wrong, there's a lot of hard things about bringing your kid on vacation we don't sleep in. We're constantly chasing her around everywhere still. But I do think if she wasn't here I would constantly be just like, oh I wish Penelope was on this trip with us or we wouldn't end up staying as long as we are. So I think it really just depends on the type of trip that you are wanting to do. Whether you want it to be an adult trip or a kid trip. If you want them to experience the things that you're experiencing. I don't know. I think this trip definitely would have been fun without her. There were a lot of moments where I'm like, I'm kind of jealous of our friends that don't have kids because they can go to a restaurant in peace. We definitely went out to a restaurant last night and it broke the glass. But at the end of the day for us I think it is just so much more fun to watch her experience the things that we're experiencing. Experience them alongside of each other. I honestly think the hardest parts are just how exhausting it can be. Like I definitely sleep very hard at the end of the day and then staying in Airbnbs and places that are not toddler proof because you're just constantly like watching them 24-7. I don't know, we could stay in the comfort of our home where everything is easy she has all of her toys, our whole house is toddler proof. Or we could experience places like this and make really cool memories and have those memories to share with her when she gets older. That's funny. Our last day in Lake Como. I'm kind of sad about it. I could have easily spent a whole week here and we ended up just doing I think three nights. Today we're heading over to Monagio so we're going to take another ferry to a different city. And this time we already have a planned Lido day. Yesterday was kind of unplanned we just kind of stumbled upon it. This one this one we paid like 90 euros for the full day of like a chair and supposed to be a little bit more upscale. Pool, beach area. This one also offers a bit more in terms of entertainment for kids. There's like a kids pool, a kiddie pool. I think there's like a slide area.