April 14, 2006

• will someone pass me a tissue?

  Edit:I
  finally got the picture to attach so I thought I would let everyone
  take a peak.  The text is the same though, so if you read it
  yesterday skip it today.  
  Now I
  feel like I can start pick out pictures to post.  Tell me if you
  think I should make them bigger or smaller would you?  Also you
  can click on the picture to make it bigger than what’s in the blog.

  We had the best time in Rome.  We got back to the apt. at about
  4am Mon. morning and literally fell into bed.  When we woke up
  about noon Mon. it felt like I had tried to swallow a live coal and the
  thing got stuck halfway down my throat.  My nose was running like
  a sieve and my head was throbbing with every heartbeat,  all my
  muscles felt like they had been pounded with a meat mallet.  It
  was bizarre.  I’m just so very grateful that it didn’t ruin our
  trip.  So for the last couple of days I have been in bed
  recovering from the lightning cold virus from hell.  I feel really
  bad too because I was probably contagious the whole time
  I was in Rome and didn’t know it which means that soon it will not only
  be all over Rome courtesy of our tour guide but it will also be in
  Kentucky and New York City.  Sorry!!!  This is why I wash my
  hands so often!!  Not that it did me any good since my husband
  thinks he’s the one that gave it to me in the first place.  But
  seriously I find it very weird that I felt fine up until we got
  home,  my immune system has perfect timing. 

  I
  have started the slow wade thru of pictures.  I took 390..….umm
  yeah!  So there’s bound to be at least 10 or 12 worth
  sharing. 

  One
  of my favorite pictures so far was my first glimpse of St.Peter’s thru
  the window of the vatican museum.  We had come in from the metro
  and hadn’t seen anything but the entrance to the museum and the all of
  a sudden you go around a corner and there it is out the window. 
  WOW!  I wanted to post it today so you could at least see one but
  once again my picture editor isn’t working.  I’ve tried attaching
  it a half dozen times and it won’t show. So sorry. 

  

  We got lucky on a couple things.  The first one was going when we
  did.  One week after the huge memorial for Pope John-Paul II and
  one week before Easter Sunday.  We were there on Palm Sunday and
  the National elections which was bad enough but a week earlier or later
  ….. we were told the crowds were ten times worse, that 250,000 people
  came for the memorial. And Easter at the Vatican!  I can’t even
  imagine!  But we had great timing crowd wise.  After Easter
  and it starts getting to hot and even more crowded, and in Feb. many
  things are still on Winter hours and it’s rainy.
  The weather was perfect in Rome.  When we left Germany it was 9C (48.2F)
  and raining.  In Italy it was 19C (66F) then it got to about 21C (69.8F) and sunny.  THE SUN! 
  You just have no idea!  For three days I walked around with my
  face turned up. (yes, I had sunscreen.)  When we landed at
  Midnight Mon. it was 4C (39F) and yup! Raining! and its been raining ever
  since and the temp has not gone over 9C.  This Spring is going to
  eventually be gorgeous, I can’t imagine all the flowers that will bloom
  thanks to all the rain, but meantime I’m losing my mind.  I can
  still feel the warmth sitting on the colosseum.  (I still can’t
  believe I sat in the colosseum.)  It was Sunday, our last day in
  Rome and I was draggin’ butt from all the running around we had done
  for the past three days.  There was a ledge and I just sat myself
  down.  At first people just stared but then this old lady sat next
  to me and in about 2 minutes the whole ledge was full of groaning
  women.  Believe me those warm rocks felt like the most comfy couch
  ever.  I would have sat there a whole lot longer too except our
  guide was getting to far ahead and I didn’t want to totally lose the
  guy. 

  More about Rome later.
  Time for another nap.  lol, maybe I’m turning into a cat.
  I’ll keep trying to figure out why my pictures won’t attach.      If anyone knows what’s going on will you drop me a line. 

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