I have so many little matters to tell you of, that I cannot wait any longer before I begin to put them down.
Posted in Italy on Jun 3rd, 2010
SO much happened, and we have about 200 pictures, but I’ll condense my 8 pages of written notes (since there was no internet, I wanted to remember everything). We drove down to Alvito yesterday to visit the birthplace of Derek’s grandparents. It is a Beautiful town on a mountain. I hope some of the pictures […]
So last night the romantic night walk across Rome turned nightmarish as we missed the last metro, somehow got lost trying to walk back, ended up at a private disco party in the Borghese Gardens, and finally got back at 11:30. I was crabby and disgruntled with Rome. This morning we saw the church that […]
Posted in Italy on Jun 1st, 2010
FYI, I’m planning to come back and add in pictures to these posts next week when we get home–we didn’t bring our computer here so we could travel light. We’ve taken over 200 already, so we have a LOT to download! I’m not keeping a journal, so this is my attempt to remember everything. So […]
Posted in Italy on May 31st, 2010
We arrived right on time, though some serious turbulence over the Atlantic almost did Derek in. He managed about two hours of broken sleep here and there, but I can’t sleep vertically. Fortunately, I had provided myself with scintillating airplane reading–Twilight. It was not as bad as I had expected–I actually didn’t mind the first […]
Posted in Italy on May 30th, 2010
The peanut butter we were bringing to the Gaetanos didn’t make it past security. Since we are a pb-free household, it never occurred to me that it was a liquid to be regulated. But we skipped the 100 person line to check bags, so it’s still worth it to just carry on. And now our […]
Posted in Italy on May 29th, 2010
We are packed for Italy, the kids are packed for a week at Grandma’s, and we’re in Detroit to drop them off and attend Lisa and Andrew’s wedding (which was beautiful, by the way). Wow! I can’t believe it. We’re doing a crash course of Pimsleur Express Italian in the car, but I’m thinking it […]