From Rome to Venice

We have not been able to blog since leaving La Romita because the hotel in Rome charged to use the internet and we were just too busy in the big city to find any free moments to look for Internet cafes or other means of communicating... but here we are in Venice and it is our last full day!

Everything has gone so quickly here at the end of the trip. In Rome we saw the Colliseum, the Pantheon, the Vatican, several musuems and churches, and many other sights along the way. We rode the Metro and ate lunch all over the city, but our dinners were at the hotel. I have no way to upload pictures now but I will add some to this entry when we return in two days.

After Rome we arrived in Venice and took a boat across to our hotel... we are staying on the island Ledo just off the coast of the main city. The island is nice, very vacation-like with small shops and a few larger stores. We went into Venice yesterday for the first time and saw the Accademia and the Guggenheim Collection! The Guggenheim was amazing... Picasso, Cornell, Tanguy, Dali, Ernst, Pollock... the list goes on and on as to the contemporary greats we saw yesterday. Personally, I was in awe.

I would write more but we are going out to find the church where Indiana Jones was filmed. Yesterday we saw where Casino Royale was shot... Venice is both culturally rich and very surreal. I keep using that word to describe the cities we visit... but this time it really applies. I mean, we are in a city that is on the water and the roads are made of water. It is pretty amazing. Tonight is our farewell dinner at the hotel, and then we are off to the airport in the morning. Flight from Venice to Atlanta, then from Atlanta to Indianapolis... and we will all have stories from our own unique experiences to share when we get back.