Sights (and sites) in Ferrara

It's been hot and we've been kind of lazy so we've just been hanging out around Ferrara and trying to see what the city has to offer.Without going inside any museums or anything, since little Robbie gets bored and Michael tends to yell. So here's a few things we've seen in the past week. 

 

A few blocks from our hotel is this huge monument with a fountain. Apparently it's some kind of monument for soldiers or something. The statue is of a guy pouring water on (bathing?) a bunch of babies.  

 

Wednesday nights are the busy nights in the square in Ferrara, so as we were hanging out waiting for the restaurants to open, these three girls walked over and started playing violin and singing. They were really good! Lots of people stopped to listen, and I think they made a good bit of money.We listened for about 15 minutes, then went to dinner planning to stop and listen more when we were finished but they had already left.

While driving around one of the house hunting days, we saw a park with a zip line and a few slides built into the side of the hill. It was also by the wall, which we had been wanting to check out. Our hotel is right in the middle of Ferrara, so nothing is too far away. We decided to walk over there and check it out.

The next day we decided to walk to another park. At this one, there was a fountain and some playground equipment and lots of walking trails. We hung out for a bit, played, then the jungle gym turned into an obstacle course/speed challenge (Robbie is the undisputed champion of making it up over the "web", up to the slide, and down in the shortest amount of time). We even had to go back today for little Robbie to try to win, but alas, he was unsuccessful!

Little Robbie leaves on Tuesday, so this is our last weekend to hang out and enjoy Italy before he leaves.  Not sure we have anything major planned, but I'm sure we'll be visiting many of these spots again in the next couple of days!