La Dolce Vida

While many of you might not be checking this since it has been awhile ... hey - sometimes its hard to find an internet cafe when you are trotting across the globe! You hate me I know and I understand. Anyway - Kelly and I are in Rome living la Dolce Vida ... sort of ... in our chinatown hotel (i don't mean chinatown in a good way) - oh yeah and we took a 15 HOUR TRAIN RIDE to get here from Paris - don't ask my why that was considered a good idea when we booked our tickets. In all honesty it wasn't the worst thing ever although check out kelly's blog and she might say differently. Lets just say i had ear plugs and she did not and there were three other people in our train coachette, one being a large man.

So yeah - its a good thing that Rome was the last stop on this expedition because it has been the most challenging thus far. The people however have been extremely nice everywhere we have been, including paris. London and Paris were a bit different than I remember but still amazing. I am starting to think however that city life is wearing on me - gasp!!! - did i just say that??? It is february and all these big cities are still teaming with tourists (just like us) and all the commercialization of london, paris, and now rome is kind of getting me down. i think my next european vacation will have to be to the countrysides of paris and italy and maybe belgium again.

anyway - kelly is lauging at my long winded writing style .... again - and so let me say this one last thing ... isn't it amazing that two single white females can just jaunt around the world like this? we are so blessed to be in the position to do this and i am thankful for the time and money to do it ... and of course for a good friend to share the memories with.

oh and if you don't like my long posts - then don't read my blog cuz there are plenty more to come.