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The people’s square was the first entry point ancient people would make into Rome if they were coming from the north. This is a big square and just a bit of a walk from the Spanish steps. When we first walked in we noticed the twin churches ⛪ ⛪ between the large Egyptian Obelisk. The […]

We learned that the acqua alta or high waters happen around 100 times every year in Venice. They have raised wooden platforms placed all through the city to provide elevated walkways when the floods occur. The lagoon just off of St. Mark’s Square looks like a big ocean but is really shallow and you could […]

Today we explored Venice. We left Florence on a train and it took about two hours. Once we arrived in Venice,  we saw some gondolas. We waited for a few minutes to let Grandma rest. As we were walking to our apartment, Grandma found a pizzeria that could fit everyone. After we were full, we […]

Yesterday my dad’s friend Luca picked him up on a motorcycle to go to work. We had been watching the Studio C two guys on a scooter episode (see link) and told my dad that they’d end up picking up 10 more guys on the way to work. While that didn’t happen, they did run […]

First day of real work today! Luca my colleague here in Rome was nice enough to pick me up and take me into the Cisco office. What a thrill! 20 minutes of excitement as we barreled pass and in between cars and street lights. Work was nice. We had a training meeting with an instructor […]

Far from our house is a cool park. At the park, there were teeter-totters and swings that were really good at going high. Also, the park had a metal, medium, and straight slide that was fun.  The ground is concrete.  I recommend you come to this park in Italy, if you have a little time.

Today I woke up ready for adventure. The first place we walked to was the Uffize museum. Their we saw paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Botticelli. Here are some pictures. After the Uffize museum my two younger siblings and I stayed home while Jackie and my parents walked around Florence. Once they […]

Yesterday we went to the forum because it is free entry on Sundays. This time we got to explore Palatine Hill more and see beautiful views of the forum. We also went to the Circus Maximus and had a race across it. Owen pointed out that we should have brought bikes to use a chariots, […]

We missed the Pope on Easter though we did watch a little of the via di cruce on Vatican TV. It all started with waking up to an Easter Egg hunt out on our fun private deck that this place has! Here in Roma we kept seeing these giant eggs everywhere. So the Easter bunny […]

Today I woke up and went to the kitchen and my mom shows me that the Easter bunny actually found out that my family and I went to Italy! The Easter bunny gave us chocolate eggs! We also got huge eggs with toys in them. Also it gave us a smaller egg with a toy […]