My Trip to Italy

My trip to Italy, so far has been one amazing day after another. I feel like I have been here forever, and realized it has not even been a week... I love that, because usually trips go by and you feel like you just got there. In the short time we have been here, we have seen some incredible sites, learned a new perspective on history, and have enjoyed a lot of amazing food. It is such a beautiful country. I had forgotten a little, too, how much I enjoy being around different cultures. I really miss it, and am envious of my sister that gets to stay here through December.

We arrived on Saturday, after a fiasco of flights... we finally got to Milano. Our bags unfortunately, did not, and we did not receive them until Monday. We walked and walked and our first time on the metro here, we came up the escalator and out of the darkness into a square right in the middle of the city... what an amazing first impression! We couldn't have picked a better station to stop at, and of course it was by accident. We went to the Duomo, went up on the rooftop for amazing views, the Monet Exhibit, many caffe's, the university my sister is going to, the fortress/castle... then we hopped on an early train to Roma.

Rome, is where we have been for the past 3 days. It is nothing like Milan... This, is where the history is... this is what I think of when I think Italy. Everywhere you turn, there are the most amazing sculptures, historic relics, architecture, basillica's, monuments, galleries, piazzas, fountains... it is never ending. You could spend your entire life here I think and still see something new each day. They are still finding ruins and have archaeological digs/sites that are right in the middle of everyday life. Of course, none of it is everyday life to us, as tourists, but I could imagine myself here. I wish I could let Just Perfect! run itself for a year while I stayed here. (Of course I would miss home and my family and friends too much, and don't know what I'd do without work. haha) I sometimes think staging is still not well known to everyone in Wilmington and other areas, but imagine explaining what I do to someone here, with them understanding little English. It happened once, when my mom accidentally brought it up not thinking about how to explain. It was quite interesting... ended up with "something in real estate" haha.

I don't have much access to internet here, and this may be the last time for a while. It is very expensive where we've found it, except we lucked out with our hotel here in Rome providing it gratuito ?(free). If you would like to follow our travels... you can see the photos in my galleries. www.gallery.me.com/just.j You can click on public galleries of Milan, Roma, and soon Venice and Verona once we go there.

I hope you enjoy, and will be back in Wilmington before you know it!

Ciao!