Mostly Wordless Wednesday - Rome, May 2010

The Colosseum - Flavian amphitheatre completed 80AD under Emperor Titus

Piazza Navona - Fountain of Neptune by Antonio Della Bitta 1878

The Pantheon - temple of all the gods - 126AD

Tre Scalini at Piazza Navona - Scrumptious pasta

View after climbing the 138 steps of The Spanish Steps

Original Caffe Latte

Street art

Tre Scalini waiters

The Pantheon at night

The Trevi Fountain - I threw a coin for all of us but wasn't allowed to do a "Dolce Vita"

Sunday morning stroll along the river Tiber

View of St. Peter's Basilica from the river Tiber

St. Peter's Basilica

Nuns in St. Peter's Basilica

The line to get in to the Vatican Museum

Raphael's School of Athens 1511

Michelangelo's Creation of Adam inside the Sistine Chapel - NO PHOTOS ALLOWED heeheehee

Anti Pasti

View of the Alps flying back from Rome

I love Rome. 

L.O.V.E.

Wordless Wednesday

Or since I'm a day late and not really not using any words, Few Words Thursday.

And this is where we'll be this weekend.

I'm super excited. 

No, I'm SUPER EXCITED!! 

Promise to tell you all about it when we get back :)

Back in England

Pheuw! What a whirlwind the past week has been. The warm kind of wind that you don't mind being in at all. I have so many stories to tell and no time to do it right now, but I'll make sure to sit down some time early next year to write. The trip across the Atlantic is a chapter of it's own, including an emergency landing in New Foundland and a spiritual  aha-moment for me, I'll make sure to tell you all about it later. 

It's been wonderful to spend Christmas with J-girl, Snorkel Kid, Froggy-boy and Sta-Bas. I loved seeing Diver Dudes eyes lit up when we first walked in the door and he was attacked by Froggy-boy with a big hug closely followed by Sta-Bas yelling "E-paaaa, E-paaaa!!" (StaBas is two and that's how grandpa is pronounced.) The week's been filled with frogs, insects and other creepy crawlies that Froggy-boy captured and showed us (he's seven, going on forty and a future biologist/zookeeper/snake-tamer), Star Wars toys in all thinkable sizes and shapes (Sta-Bas is obsessed, hence the name {Sta-Bas = Star Wars in Sta-Bas language}), doctors visits, contractions and wild baby moves with J-girl + bump and lots of dive related discussions between Diver Dude and Snorkel Kid (who is following in Diver Dudes footsteps as a Navy Diver), some chillaxing by the pool and a whole lot of wii sports. 

We also got to spend time with Diver Dudes MOTHER, Spoiled Brat (youngest brother), Hippie-Jew (step-dad), Marie Antoinette (sister, and that's her real name!!) and her two boys Billy-Bob and The Professor. Oh boy, do I have some good stories, they are one crazy family! 

Anyway, I better get back to preparing for the party tonight and taming the laundry monster, I really just wanted to wish you all a Happy New Year! May 2010 be the year when all our dreams come true.