We woke up with the birds today in order to make it to the Vatican by 7:30am. We booked an early morning tour so that we would have time to tour the Colosseum in the afternoon. Both tours were amazing and filled with too many facts and stories to retell here, so I'll just go over a few of the highlights of the day. Finding the Vatican was easy once we figured out which direction to walk after exiting the metro. The wall surrounding it is HUGE. Before our tour...

My mom is visiting from the states for a couple of weeks, so Ben and I decided to take advantage of Grandma and go off on a kid - free adventure (which is a rarity these days). Thankfully Grandma agreed that she was comfortable enough and willing to babysit the boys for a couple of days so we could get away. It's amazing how much easier traveling is without kids. When we take the boys somewhere I usually spend hours preparing and packing all of the clothes...

Here is the experience of our trip. I will post another entry about the interesting history of Alghero.One day I was browsing the Internet and came across Ryan air having a sale. Flights from Frankfurt Hahn to Alghero were only 8 euro one way. That's a pretty good deal, I thought to myself. Now only if I knew where Alghero was. I looked it up on google maps and found out it was an island in Italy. That would be a perfect trip to go relax right before Be...