Buona Sera!
We made it safely to Rome this afternoon. What an amazing city!!! There is so much history to this place, it's really incredible. We wandered for a few hours with Jason and Jordanna and ended up taking the city tour bus around the entire city. We saw several fountains by Bernini and the church where Ignatius Loyola is buried. We saw the Pantheon (which is incredible!!), the island and the Tiber River that still has a hospital on it from the time of the plague...We drove by the forum, the Colosseum, and many other basilicas. The list goes on.......We are taking lots of pictures and taking some great footage of the sites!

We took a cab from the train station this afternoon and that was quite the experience. Being in Venice for 3 days we forgot how crazy the driving is in Italy! Our cab driver used a GPS to get us to our apartment...he was quite the character. Funny and charming -- he even offered us gum! Our apartment is quite small but quaint...we are in a great neighborhood of the city.


We just found out there's a National Strike tomorrow here in Italy. All public transportation and public historical sites will be closed. Thank goodness we left Venice today! We never would've made it here by train. We are scheduled to go on a 5 hour tour of the Roman Forum and the Colosseum tomorrow and we just received word that it might be cancelled. We are also scheduled to go on a tour of the Vatican on Saturday and we just heard that the priests are protesting?? We don't know how accurate this information is because we can't read Italian very well! Talk about bad timing!! Let's hope things clear up and we get to see the sites.

And by the way...we ran into one of Kait's Canton HS students in Venice the first day. What a small world!

We've uploaded a couple more photos. There's a special one for Micah and Marley :)
You can check them out at the blog...
walkingthesilkroad.blogspot.com



Enjoy!!
Lots of love....

Ciao!
Kabe