Still having fun!

We're just finishing up sightseeing in Rome, and are headed to Florence this afternoon. I've always heard it's hot here....and it's only May!! We had some minor hiccups with our timing yesterday afternoon (got to the Forum too late and it was closed), but it worked out for the best. We were able to catch it this afternoon after the Vatican. Now, we're on to the next stop and more fantastic art. I can't believe how old everything is here. There's Roman rubble just laying around all over....some of this stuff, if we had it in the U.S., we'd put it behind bulletproof glass in some museum....here they use it to stand on and sit on. Fantastic!

Europe!!

Just want to update quickly. We're 5 days in to the 12-day trip, and are having a blast. Right now, we're sitting in a cafe in Prague, and it's beautiful here! We would come back in a heartbeat. We did the beer, sausages and pretzels in Munich, have had the beer and pig knee in Prague, and I think have managed to eat at least one serving of gelato each day...and we're not even to Italy yet! We head to Rome tomorrow, where we look forward to more fun to come. That's all, folks. On to the next spot...!

Well, ok...now it's May!

Back in January I was wondering how we were ever going to wait until May for our trip. Apparently, I decided that the best way to wait was to try to think about it as little as possible, and avoid blogging about anything at all!! While that was kind of lame of me, I did make it clear at the beginning of this whole blogging experience that I usually got really excited about "journaling" when it came to picking out the journal...then had a tendency to let it slip by the wayside. Guess I was right about myself! :) However, now that our fantastically exciting trip is ONE WEEK AND TWO DAYS away, I'm ready to focus again.

What's been going on in the meantime....well, we've been working a lot. Other than that, we've had some fun with friends and family coming into town, and a visit we made to Seattle....and spending time with lots of friends around here.

Now, we're honing in on the trip actually being here. We've been finalizing plans, printing confirmations, double- and triple-checking the details, and making laminated copies of important documents (did I mention that Seth and I may have a tendency to be slight over-planners)? :) Anyway, Seth has been working ridiculously hard the past few months doing research, building the itinerary, and booking sights. I, on the other hand, went weeks at a time without doing a thing, then had a few furious days here and there where I could think of and do almost nothing else. I finally finished reading the last of the guidebooks, and now I'm feeling good and ready. About having to be on the plane for that long....we'll see how that goes!

Until next Tuesday, we are furiously washing our hands and coughing into our elbow-pits to avoid the swine flu (what amazing timing for that pandemic, huh?) and tying up all the loose ends. We've got some friends that will be house/pet sitting for us while we're gone - and that's helping a lot to ease our minds. I plan on updating this blog a bit while we're over there...so stay tuned! I also picked out a really pretty new journal that we're going to take with us....I wonder if I'll actually write in it?!? :)