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• Last night

  We head back to the US in the morning. We wont have any more blog posts until we get adjusted back to US time and get settled in. Today we saw the Pantheon and went on a wine tasting tour. Both were fun. I've posted the pictures for them. Time for... Posted Jul 05 2007, 02:44 PM by Jeff with | with no comments Filed under: Italy, Rome

• Rome - July 4th

  We started out the 4 th of July thinking of the US and the most honored tradition: The Coney Island Hot Dog eating contest. The one US channel we have was highlighting the American hopeful and his goal of over throwing Kobayashi to reclaim the hot dog... Posted Jul 05 2007, 01:09 AM by Jeff with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Italy, Rome

• Florence / Rome July 3rd

  New words coined by Angie on this trip: Grawesome – When something is both gross and awesome at the same time. It was used first in Venice after visiting Saint Mark’s Church and the Tesoro room (treasures room). In this room there were body parts of saints... Posted Jul 03 2007, 02:32 PM by Jeff with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Italy, Florence, Rome

• Florence 6/30/07

  The website was done for a bit so this post is a day behind. We'll catch up once we hit Rome. In the last 24 hours 2 monumental things have happened: I ate pizza in Pisa, and I joined high class society as I now own a Rolex. To all those chumps in... Posted Jul 01 2007, 10:11 AM by Jeff with | with no comments Filed under: Italy, Florence, Pisa

• Florence - June 29th

  Florence 6/29/07 Today we did the museum thing. Angie will tell you all about it. It was pretty interesting to actually see David and the famous paintings in the Uffizi, something you definitely have to do in Florence if you are here. My feet are pretty... Posted Jun 29 2007, 11:48 AM by Jeff with | with 6 comment(s) Filed under: Italy, Florence

• Venice to Florence

  Today we took the train from Venice to Florence. It was a pretty easy trip, the hardest part was riding the vapareto to the train station. That was really only difficult by the mass of people that got on and off at each stop. There was some yelling at... Posted Jun 28 2007, 01:19 PM by Jeff with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Italy, Florence

• Venice Tues-Wed

  As Angie points out there is some discrepancy between us about which day we are on for our trip so I’ll just put the days of the week for the titles of the my posts. We’ve also decided that Angie is going to write more about the actual site seeing and... Posted Jun 27 2007, 11:08 AM by Jeff with | with no comments Filed under: Italy, Venice

• Venice Day 2

  I'm behind a day in writing as we are really finishing up day 3 but I haven't posted much about Day 2 yet. There is so much to write about and the internet cafe charges by the minute, so it's an interesting exercise in prioritization. We started... Posted Jun 26 2007, 08:00 AM by Jeff with | with no comments Filed under: Italy, Venice

• Venice Day 1

  We successfully made it to Venice, but not without a few difficulties.Our flight from Atlanta was delayed 4 hours (for a total of 8 hours sitting in Atlanta) and we had to get off the plane and switch to another due to equipment failure. Delta Airlines... Posted Jun 25 2007, 10:15 AM by Jeff with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Italy, 2007, Venice

• ATL so good we're going to stay a bit longer

  Turns out the first plane we have been sitting on for the last 2 hours isn't going to be able to fly to Venice after all. We're now waiting in line to get another boarding pass for the new plane they are going to use. Hopefully this one will be... Posted Jun 23 2007, 08:37 PM by Jeff with | with no comments Filed under: Italy, Flight

• Welcome to the ATL

  We're currently hanging out in Atlanta waiting for our flight to Venice. So far no suprises with the trip.I tried being all tricky and tethering our smartphones to my laptop so we could get internet access for free. I seem to be missing some setting... Posted Jun 23 2007, 04:23 PM by Jeff with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Italy, 2007

• Just a few more days

  Just a few more days to go. Angie and I are excited and a bit stressed. We can't wait to get going on the trip but it seems that there are a million little things we have to remember to do prior to going. Every museum in Italy that you want to go... Posted Jun 19 2007, 09:56 PM by Jeff with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Italy, 2007

• A little more than 1 month to go

  A little more than 1 month till our trip. Angie is going to work on making our train and museum reservations this week. That will be the last of things we need to take care of prior to our trip. I started updating the itinerary to include some details... Posted May 21 2007, 07:46 AM by Jeff with | with no comments Filed under: Italy, 2007