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“Stay hungry, stay uncomfortable, stay in the same Airbnb just until you get comfortable then leave and find the next adventure.” – Booker T Washington We said goodby to Rome today. Somewhat sad. But we’ll be back! The train left at 12:15 so we were nervous about making it there on time. So we left […]

Thanks to Rick Steve’s we learned that the best Gelato is sold from artisan shops that store their gelato in closed silver canisters rather than piled high in tubs in open display cases. We finally found an artisan shop today after eating at several other non-artisan shops and our conclusion is we just love it […]

Wow! Stunning and HUGE! A few favorites included: St. Peter’s Square. We didn’t get great photos here because they were setting up for Easter mass, but we’ll be back! The bronze canopy that is supposedly over the place where Peter’s bones are buried. Mammoth!! Months in advance, Val requested from the Vatican, via email, the […]

The Vatican like many of the sites in Rome has all kinds of lines and wait times. I have a ridiculous fear of lines or anything that requires me to wait. This fear is more pronounced when I’m on vacation. For me relaxing on vacation means going from one event to the other and filling […]

Today we went to the Roman Colosseum.  We woke up at three o’clock a.m. for breakfast because of the time change. It was funny! We went with grandma and grandpa.   The tickets were switched so we all went together on our colosseum tour at twelve o’clock instead of splitting up in two separate groups. Grandma […]

Today we left our house at 8:00 and went to Saint Peter’s Basilica. We took a tour of the space under the basilica which was really cool and then looked around the main floor. We left around noon for our tour of the Vatican Museum and when we got there the was a giant line. […]

Lots of ruins for the kids to climb on!

The coliseum was known in ancient times as the Flavian ample theatre but was called the coliseum due to a giant statue of what was the emperor Nero. We got lucky again and got our group tour together to see the underground and the top top level. From research the best way to get this […]

Our day today started with a 3am breakfast! Cereal of course! After most of the kids crashing around 4pm yesterday, an early morning was to be expected!

On 3-20-2018, my mom woke me up early to go to the dentist appointment to get my first fillings. My fillings did not taste good. Next, I pack the last few things for my long trip to Italy. My family and I go to the airport. The nice airport man told us that our flight […]