Grown-up Dinner in Rome

We are headed out for our first grown-up dinner of the trip. Lesley's mom is going to watch the kids and we are going to go out to eat and walk Rome using Rick Steve's Rome night walk.

Looking forward to seeing all the major sites lite up. We are also going to try to complete one more geocache, which will make a total of 9 caches today! An all time record for both the families!

Love to all.

#soproudofmyman

So...Josh has taken to writing on my Facebook page. Its pretty funny.

We are in our last city: Rome. Yesterday we wandered around and went to the National Museum and then to Palatine Hill and the Roman Forum. There are MANY ruins throughout the city and we happen across many of them by way of our wandering.

We have a nice apartment here with 3 bedrooms. There are 7 of us know that Lesley's mom joined us from the UK. She is sleeping in the bedroom with the kids and David and Lesley have a double bed, as do we.

I ran my last load of laundry here in the apartment and was surprised at its speedy nature! Usually Italian washers say they are running a 50min cycle that actually takes 3 hours...but this one was actually just about an hour!

Its crazy what you enjoy after having to deal with second rate appliances for 2.5 weeks! :)

See everyone in a couple days!

From Orvieto

Tomorrow we train from Orvieto to Naples. In Naples we will take a regional train to Sorrento where we have an apartment with a distant sea view (who knows what that means!).

In Orvieto, the Jazz Fest has not interfered for the most part except by making it a bit more congested with traffic and increasing the price of accommodations.

We enjoyed two nights out to eat, both with great pasta dishes and one adventurous meal that included wild boar (not too adventurous...).

The Duomo (church) here has cool mosaic tiles and is one of the more interesting, but the church in Siena remains the coolest on the inside.

Josh says: "And Shannon pines for some Italian dude's wood." Don't worry! The link will only take you to an Italian woodworker's website featuring all their beautiful, hand-carved wood art. It's amazing.

Holiday Hugs from our hearts to yours!