8. Thanks to my awesome
parents, my siblings and I
have gotten to see many
famous places, architecture,
art and beautiful
landscapes.
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12. Art has always run in my family’s blood. My mom was
a major role in cultivating mine and my siblings
interests in art.
13. She took us to M.J. Designs for arts and crafts several
times a year. She’s the main planner of most of our
adventures.
14. From a very young age, my mother provided my
siblings and I with crayons, markers, acrylic paint, clay,
yarn, canvases and all sorts of ways to play with them.
15. My father also was encouraging of our artistic interests.
16. He would take us to art museums, as small children,
and have us draw the works we liked.
17. This is my younger brother Christopher. He’s one of a
kind.
18. He graduated from The University of Texas with a BFA
in Studio Arts.
19. Most of the time the two of us go on vacation with my
parents.
39. I also, got to tour The Vatican and go inside of the
Sistine Chapel!
40. When this building was being built, Michelangelo took
some scrap marble and made the famous David
41. We visited the beautiful Trevi Fountain, by Nicola Salvi,
in Rome, Italy. My father told us legend says if you
throw a coin over your shoulder, into the fountain, you
will visit the fountain again. It was his second visit.
42. I’ve seen The Thinker, by Auguste Rodin, in person.
Pretty cool!
43. I got the privilege of walking through the streets of
Pompeii. This is a photo of some pottery and frescos
that survived the Volcanic eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in
AD 79.
44. We took a tour at the Vatican and saw the marble statue
of Laocoon and His Sons, by the sculptors Agesander,
Athenodoros and Polydorus.