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I Am Back!!! – Video Blog 3!

Click Here For Video Blog 3 (Windows Media Player) I am BACK from Italy! What a great time had by all! Just wanted to thank all the relatives for showing us a great time! There are so many posts it didn’t fit on one page, so here is the link to all of the posts! …

Last Day In Italy – 8/27/04

LAST DAY aweeee Just finished packing and just relaxing before we head out to the airport. I took most of the days so far updating my journal. We leave around 1:30 to head to the airport. I am not really homesick and could use a few more days to discover Rome so more. 3 hours …

The Coliseum – 8/26/04

8/26/04 Another kind of mellow day. After our late night last night we slept in pretty late. Today was finish up day. Anything we wanted to do, Francesco offered to take us too. We pretty much drove in and took a bus right from the start of the city. Our first stop was the holy …

Rome By Night – 8/25/04

A day to relax. Just finished the last 2 days journals, which took the longest of any of my journals ever! We slept in late and we are just relaxing most of the day. We took a trip into one of the towns and did some shopping. We finally came across a movie theater. I …

Live From Italy

Just checking in! I am on Ilaria’s computer! She has a written journal and I am showing her how I ad a journal to my Blog! We are taking it easy today! The last 2 days we toured Italy! Yesterday we went to the Vatican and the Rome has been our favorite part of the …

Vatican City – 8/24/04

Another big day as we head to Vatican City. One of the brother’s Tonino and family was our guide today. Not growing up Catholic, going to Vatican city was never an aspiration of mine. As I met my wife, going to a Catholic church, getting married in a Catholic church, I was definitely more aware …

Rome Day 1 – 8/23/04

Huge sightseeing day. We headed out around 10:30 to downtown Rome. We took the Metro in and it took around an hour. I was pretty impressed with their subway system, although I had that song “Metro Train” in my head all day from the group Berlin. Today’s tour guide is Giuseppe. One of the brothers …

Off to Rome! Arrivederci! – 8/22/04

Our last day in Sicily. It is definitely time to move on. Sicily is very beautiful, after I got over the language barrier and the ways of Europeans in general, I really had a good time. I just find it funny how things are drastically different here. Someone in our group said this is not …

Last Full Day in Sicily – 8/21/04

This is the last Full day in Sicily. Very low key. We went to BaRappa the Rappa’s bakery. Very cool little place. They really did have awesome food there. The weather was very overcast and very cloudy but after 8 days not 1 drop of rain, really worked out well for us. It is truly …