Baby chicks adopted by a friend!

This week we've been blessed with the birth of these beautiful chicks at University. Some eggs are kept in an environmental chamber and some eggs were actually fecunded and.. here some chicks!!!!!!! wow.. I didn't know anything about it but when I've found out I had to check them out! These chicks have now a home so they'll be safe! So sweet!!!!!!

The wedding preparations are going well, we're hoping to have this vegan catering from Firenze, called La Fonte - vegan restaurant. I'm hoping they'll accept to do our wedding. That would be wonderful. The girl I'm in contact with seems supernice and she showed me a super-yummy menu..

For the rest, we're thinking about marrying on the top of Castello Doria, in Portovenere.. the view is breathtaking too! I'll keep you posted!

Something very wrong with Denny's..

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Baby Stingrays

It's been awhile since last time I wrote something.. probably not so many people will read this. :( by the way, news.. I became aunt of a cute little boy, Perry and I just got engaged and we'll marry next summer in Italy.. and I wanted to show a video (now a bit old) of newborn stingrays, released in the bay, in the Gulf of Mexico.
I hope you're doing great!
Love, Valentina

Puppy mills

I've just watched this video from the Humane Society of The United States and it was really sad. Please click on the puppy picture to watch it and share it with your friends..

I'm very busy right now, preparing for my trip to Dry Tortugas.. ones back I promise pictures! I'm very excited! Here a picture with Perry on Cinco de Maio in a mexican restaurant, we had fun! hehe..

My Birthday and New Orleans

It's been awhile. Guess this is my common sentence in this period. I celebrated my birthday on May 15, Perry and I went to New Orleans and we had a wonderful time! We went to a jazz bar and there was a band playing beautiful music. It was just disappointing that the food wasn't that great or well.. there was not food for us! We couldn't eat anything local because everything was seafood based.. :( So at the end we ate a vegan burger at the HardRock cafè.. guess better than nothing! :)

It was a really nice weekend. The city is very beautiful and alive, the people friendly, just fantastic! The signs of Katrina are still there though and it was really sad to see part of the city completely empty and a dead forest on our way back home..



Soon I'm going to a research 'expedition' to the Dry Tortugas and I hope it's gonna be great! I'm going to study coral reef/fish! One week on a boat for some great ecological research!