Today was a nice sleep in ! Woke up late and enjoyed the clouded sky- its nice not drenching in sweat ! The shuttle to the city has a weird gap from 11-15 and the last shuttle in is at 1830 so decided to have this as a lazy day. Had a nap, read my great expectations book and caught up on my journals (because I know my mom will want to read those!). Plan tonight is to have dinner at the restaurant (25% off!) and have a vino or four. Going to get an early start t...

Hung by the pool this morning while waiting to switch rooms. It will be nice to be in one room for 5 nights straight. And I Courtney actually have a tan, yes it is true ! Got up to 38 degrees today, the humidity was insane. Went back into town and had an amazing dinner and dessert!!! So yummy!!! Headed on a night tour which was very cool and saw Piazza Repubblica, Piazza Barberini, Triton fountain, Spanish steps, Trevi Fountain, and Piazza Navona. Rome is beau...

Rome is awesome. Busy last few days. Yesterday we went on a walking tour and saw the colosseum, mouth of truth, pantheon, and the roman forums just to name a few. Here are some fun facts we learnt (there was a ton of info - its why they say break all the tours up) Colosseum: animal fights started the games entertainment - they even had giraffes fight one another, along with hippos and loins ... The one battle they had to cancel because it always ended the same ...

In Roma !!!! Chilling at the campsite in our tent ... Yes a tent... Only one more night though then a cabin ! Thank god... Plan was to go on a night tour but messed up our dates ... So chilled at the pool for 4 hours and using tonight to plan out our remaining 7 days here ! Silly us- we did sleep in though - had a late night partying with the boys which was fun. The tents get so hot in the morning !! It's crazy. Tomorrow hopefully doing the Vatican and ship...

Finally in Italy !! So excited. We have a cute little cottage on the campsite and a pool!! It's a nice setup- they have a shuttled organized to get us into Venice. So on our first night we said a sad goodbye to all the Australians we met on our trip :( - had some vino, pizza and took some memorable photos. First day in Venice was exactly how I pictured it!! Gondolas, tight little alley ways with shops, beautiful churches... And the list goes on. It was just brea...