Tag Archives: Italy

I figure I’ll get the announcement about who won my blog giveaway out of the way before I write up my last day in Italy, just because Brittney nagged me about it. ;-) I swear this contest wasn’t rigged, but the winner is my mom, with her guess of 1,974! The total number of pictures [...]

Note: for some reason I was light on pictures on this day. I’m not sure why–I know it was a low-key, but I still usually manage to take a ton of pictures. Oh well. Day 6, Friday, started early when Joel! had to get ready to leave for the airport. :-( All of us went [...]

Day 5, Thanksgiving, dawned quite a bit earlier than any of us had planned. I woke up around 3:30 and discovered that John had quietly been getting sick since before midnight. I gave him some tylenol I’d brought (as he had a fever) and some saltines, but without getting too graphic, he was no better [...]

The fourth day started out quite wonderfully. Why? Well, for the first time the whole trip, we slept in. Ahhh, sleep. We were up and out the door by around 10:00 though, so that we could catch a bus to Positano and then to Amalfi, to see what neat things there were to see. As [...]

I’m going to try something somewhat different in this post. In an attempt to not flood you with quite as many pictures as I’d like, I’m going to try linking to some of them instead. If you hold the mouse over the link but don’t click on it, it’ll tell you if it’s to Flickr [...]

As always, there are more pictures in the Flickr gallery for my trip than I’ve actually posted here–I’m trying to just cover the highlights here. :-) I think my biggest complaint about anything this whole trip was the hotel beds. On our second day in Rome (our first morning), I woke up and announced to [...]