Roma!

Hmm...where to begin. Ryan and I had a night-train that was terrible. We were in our couchette sleeping car with 4 other people, the lady below me snored like a freight-train and also decided that 2am was an appropriate time to blow her nose for about 30 minutes!!! This was the loudest nose-blowing you have ever heard in your life. Now...on to the good part!!!!

I greeted Heather and Lindsey at the airport. Actually, they greeted me, as they snuck up behind me!!! It was more than great to finally see Heather after all this time. Words really won't do it justice. Not surprisingly, I haven't found the time to write until now. Today we went and toured the Colloseum and the Palatine hill. The Palatine hill was where Rome was founded. All of this was very old and very interesting. We had a great day, although it started out raining. It was just partly cloudy for the rest of the day, but I was with Heather so a little rain would never matter. Hope to post some pictures soon, but we are planning on going to the Vatican tomorrow. Should have plenty to post after that!

Take care!

Oh yeah, Heather wanted to write on here.

Bongiorno! It's Heather reporting live from Roma, Italia. The flight from Memphis to Amsterdam was TERRIBLE! Of course, I actually ended up having THE ONLY seat on the plane that didn't recline. Everyone else on my row could recline. No not me, mine was broken so I flew 8 hrs 40 mins at a ninety degree angle. Maybe slept an hour. Besides that the flight attendants were super mean. The layover in Amsterdam was not bad. The airport was super nice with lots of shops. The connecting flight to Rome was only 2 hours which I slept mostly minus having my first glass of Italian wine. We didn't even have to go thru customs after landing so my seeing Jonathan was not dragged out!! We waited maybe 15 mins for our luggage and walked thru one door and there was my Jonny with his back to us looking at the arrival monitor. He was, of course, mad because he had a sign with our names and some gerber daisies! He is the best! We took the train back to the central train station and walked to our hostel, which is really more like a hotel. It is nice and private. Ryan popped a bottle of champagne for us to celebrate our arrival. Then we walked around and went to dinner. >However, Italians don't eat dinner until around 9 but the restaurant did open at 7. We were the only ones there until about 8. Dinner was so good. Lots of pasta, spinach, and lots of vino! We went back to the room and played Catchphrase and opened another bottle of wine. It was truly a fun night....very relaxing for our first night. Today was the Colloseum, Palentine Hills, and the Roman Forum ruins. It was very cool seeing all the history. We all had gelato after our siteseeing. I hope all is well in the States. I miss everyone! I wish you all could be here with us...especially you ,Mom. You would love the food and wine!

Ciao for now!