Vacation takes its toll. I gained 5 pounds, but it was worth it. We just got all the pictures downloaded and we took over 1000 pictures. We obviously can’t post them all and will end up putting them in the gallery, with the right size and orientations, stay tuned. I am going to post some of the highlights in the blog in individual posts. Kitties and puppy are doing good and we are trying to adjust back to no humidity and 8 hours of time change. No problems with the house, or the cars. It’s back to work tomorrow.
Well, we got the pictures of Elephant up. We lost him in Parma, but we thought of him throughout the trip. I completely panicked when I realized we didn’t have him in Venice and searched for him by ripping through bags on the docks. BUMMER.
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We are at the airport in Rome in the Lufthansa lounge, waiting for the flight. It has been a quick three weeks, and we are bummed to leave. We had a great time on the land tour and a lot of sights and good food and wine on the cruise. Glad to have been home to the motherland and we will be back, we threw a coin in the Trevi fountains, of course…
Checked the flights from the bar to make sure that the volcano wasn’t going to ruin the trip home.
Well Messina, Sicily takes the prize. We skipped the tour guides recommendation and bailed on the first restaurant and found one that had no English on the menu. We stopped for pizza and had these. Sadie got pizza revena. Mozzarella, parmagiana, ricotta, and corn. I had frutti di mare risotto, and it had everything.
I actually drank espresso in the exact seat at the Bar Vitello (the actual bar they used in the Godfather) when Michael insulted and then rough housed the bar owner into marrying Apolonia. You ain’t nothing until you’ve been in the actual bar.. Did this on a tour in Sicily called the “Godfather tour”, Savoca was really a beautiful place.
Eating way too much food on the cruise.
Well, we lost him somewhere in Parma. Boo!
The best sheep cheese is from the actual farm. They gave us an impromtu tour when our guide showed up. It was a friend, and only in Italian. Then we got to sample some. Sadie carried one of their cats around.
