On Friday we visited Hadrian's Villa outside of Tivoli. Hadrian created an extremely sumptuous villa in the first century AD with dozens of buildings, baths, pools, libraries, banquet halls, etc. The ruin that most appealed to Cecilia and Luby was the one shown in this picture. Hadrian created this private retreat surrounded by a circular 15 ft wide moat with draw bridges that he could pull up. He retreated this "island" whenever he wanted to get away from the other guests at the villa. Naturally Cecilia and Luby thought this was an awesome idea. They immediately started to figure out how to pull it off in their current homes. While the final designs are not finished, I have been told that Luis, Caroline, and Emma will not have access to the drawbridge (Bogey is invited).
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