Places mentioned in this post:   ~ Bassano del Grappa ~ Cittadella ~ Sirmione ~ Lazise Bassano del Grappa:  Since there was no church being held in our building on Sunday (Feb 15th) because it was Stake Conference, and the meeting was far away in Padova, we opted to just spend the day together and to go visit a couple places nearby instead. At my suggestion, we took our son Benson over to see Bassano del Grappa - the land of our ancestors and a place he had never been to before. I've taken several people to see the old home of the Bassano family where they lived during the early 1600's, but this was the first time that the doors to the inner courtyard were closed and therefore we could only see it from the outside.  I've never had a chance to see the spirit of Carnivale in Italy during the month of February before, because typically I was always hanging out at the house in Idaho during the coldest months of winter in 2023, 2024, and 2025. In Bassano del Grappa, the main P...