Roma, Roma, Roma! We had so much fun in Rome. We arrived early yesterday morning and hit the ground running. We dropped our bags off at the hotel, grabbed our last and third whole pizza each and then hopped on the metro to the Vatican Walls. We waited over two hours to get in. There was an awesome gelato place near the line where we all took turns getting our comes. The wait was so worth it, a school field trip even took us in so we didn't get harassed by the ve...

Ciao Firenze! I can't believe we are already leaving Florence this morning to spend the night in Rome. Florence was amazing! It was a little grey and rainy for the first part of the day, but that's nothing compared to what we see everyday in Ireland. We began our walk to the David, the Duomo and the Ponte Vecchio. We were about fifteen minutes into our walk and it really started pouring, you would think "oh that's so awful," but it was actually perfect because ...

Happy birthday to the most glamorous woman I know! I am sorry I could not celebrate with you yesterday, but we will make up for it this summer when I'm home! I hope you had the best day, you deserve it! I love you all the way from Italy and back! Thank you for giving me the world. Love, Ally

Our journey to Venice was very similar to our journey to Split. It was another 24 hour journey with a long layover in the middle of the night in Villach, Austria. I posted some pictures of the train travels. It first started with a six hour bus from Split to Zagreb. It was the most beautiful and scenic ride through the mountains and diverse landscapes of Croatia. We had a few hours to explore Zagreb before our second leg of the journey. It was comical being in th...