Italia Roma 2011 march

The hotel- we stayed at the royal palace hotel. It is a 5-10 minute walk to the Vatican. The hotel has 10 rooms and a really bad view! The floors were texturized wo we had to wear shoes all the time and Autumn couldn't crawl on the floor. The room was nice and cozy other than the floors. The hotel provided wireless Internet. They also brought breakfast tom the room. Lots of bread, cereal, eggs, meat, cheese, juice and coffee. A suitable breakfast for a family backpacking Rome.

The food - AMAZING! While there we had- gelato in vanilla, cookie, cappuccino and lemon. Proschuto de prima sandwhiches, spahgetti, tortallini, tiramisu, lemon cake, lemon chelo, wild berry crepe, all kinds of pizza, cappuccino, water form the fountains of Rome, Italian coke, olives, mozzarella,wine and bread. I really think that Italy is God's kitchen!

The flight- we flew from Brussels to champigono via Ryan air. While it was cheap I am not a fan. Tho we will probably fly through them again. If you leave ur ticket at home you will pay for another. Bad customer service! But u get what you pay for. No assigned sitting. Was weird for me but neat. The stroller survived to and from and so did Autumn. It wasnt bad at all but we had to pay from autumns return ticket twice. The parking cost 55 euro for 5 days. It as fine.


The tour - we paid for a tour of the vaticAc, basilica, an Sistine chapel. The lady that gave us the tour was very I formative and nice. We really enjoyed it. Michell Angelo is kind of An ass. The story has it the pope Of that time hired M.A. to paint and his paintings were not very"catholic" so one of the cardinals kept running to the pope about every tiny thing that M.A. painted. He pissed off M.A. so much that the wall of the last judgment he painted this cardinal in hell with donkey ears and a snake wrapped around him I hell. This cardinal went to the pope and he asked him to get him out of hell. The pope said that his jurisdiction is heaven, he had no jurisdiction over hell. He told the cardinal that he would have to stay I hell. There was nothing that he could do! I thought that was interesting.


Places we saw- Castel St. Angelico at night. It was pretty. Piazza Navona, had very pretty fountains. I thin, we went to the Spanish steps... Idk. We saw the great mouth. Where parliament goes. Collessium, and the ruins, where the Christians were persecuted, the chariot park.. And the list goes on!


It was amazing and if you can go to Italy do! Take an extra suitcase for souvenirs and stay for at least 2 weeks! Oh, and Italians loooooooooooove babies!

Side note-the hotel did not have a p lace for autumn to sleep so she slept in a drawer that pulled out from under the bed. I lined i t with a thick quilt provided by the hotel and she slept safe and sound!

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1- learn to make pasta homemade
2-learn to loom weave
3- leanr how to stamp metal and make jewelery
4- learn how to sew
5- learn how to spin yarn
6- get orgainized
7- have 4 chidren (3 will do)(Autumn, Winter, Summer and August)
8- make pasteries
9-learn to decorate cake
10-foster children
11- finish history degree
12- volunteer
13-learn about sports
14-go to italy
15- go to greece
16- poland
17 madrid
18- go to a bunch of countries
19-go antique shopping
20 make a coffee mug set
21-work at a bakery
22-work at a coffee shop
23-quilt
24- learn some fighting skill so i can beat joe at something
25-build a memory trunk for all of my children
26- learn wood working
27- make a bottle cap coffee table
28- get a dog a train it well- shiba inu

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What a day....

To start-
Taxes... yes we love this time of year -you become a king a a pouper. We landed somewhere in between. Gotta love that child tax credit.

We got mail!
I got my boxes from amazon today! Autumn loves her vulli's Sophie the Giraffe Teether. But not as a teether she rolled over on it and slammed her feet on it. She thought it was Hillarious! I also purchased a Fisher Price Healthy Care Forest booster for her. AND she did love that one. I now know why she doesn't eat very well.... she gets bord. We got her a few more things but the one that i was kind of excited about was the dish. It holds 3 differnt sections of food, come with a lid that wont spill and keeps the food seperate and an spoon that attaches. AWESOME.

Autumn-
She has been so fussy today! I wanted to literally pull my hair out. I cant wait for these teeth to come through....

Learning

I made my first tutu last night!!!!! The supplies finally came in! It is soooooooooo cute. I will post pics soon.

Return to Sender

He's home again! Oh yes mam he is back! Can we say double-whammy!?! "wink, wink"

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yea that's pretty much it.

reminiscing

Joe and I have been together a VERRRRY long time. He was my first everything. Joe has had my heart since I was 15 years old. I have had his since he was 17.

I remember our first "kiss" like it was yesterday. He tried twice but I froze! The third time he asked and I had to give in! I was so nervous my heart raced and I became light headed from the excitement. I remember the moment I realized I loved him and the moment that I knew he was mine.

We have been together for 10 years now. There has been hell and heaven in our relationship. Every time we were apart we found our way back. This man has been in my every passing thought for 10 years. 10 years... Wow. that is a long time to be with someone. I am glad that I told him to marry me.

I love where this relationship has brought us... But sometimes I wish I could be 16 again making out with him against his old Monte Carlo. With a blanket wrapped around us both. Begging him to stay just a minute longer.... To be 19 again seeing him for the first time in 2 years, getting that amazing kiss on my bed.

umm... the memories.

Love in it's bloom is so exciting....

plans 2

Sara helped me decide on a name for my new biz!
Tittle-Tatle
I am so excited! My pal Jen said she would teach me to sew! Just another step closer to my dreams!

Hello to the wonderful world of own your own biz!

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Tam