Yet again- another pic of Italy- it sums up most of our drive (the Dolomite Mountains). Maranello was a stop we made right before Verona. Maranello is the home of the Ferrari and houses its main factory. We walked by the museum and gate enterance to the factory and then drove by the test track and got a little peak at it through trees.

Here is another pic of Venice. We went to Verona the day we go into Venice- it is the home of Romeo and Juliet. We got to see the super cute town- with quaint streets, excellent shopping, their own Coloseum, AND the balcony that inspired Shakespeare to write Romeo and Juliet. Its in a small square and is above a golden statue of Juliet. If you grad Juliet's right breast you are supposed to have luck-in-love... Nick said he didn't need the luck and would leave...

So I realize that we are back in the US now and have been for a couple weeks, but I felt like we couldn't leave any dedicated blog readers wondering how our trip finished. So I will attempt to sum up the remaining locations from what now seems like memmories of a dream. We arrived in Venice from the cruise ship from Corfu (I know I randomly wrote about Austria already which comes later). Venice was such a cute Italian island that has signs everywhere because i...

**Our pic is of the Trevi Fountain in Rome- b/c we couldn't get one of Pompeii :) We stopped in Pompeii for a few hours on our way to pick-up our Greek cruise over to Corfu Island. It was really neat- lots of old ruins and we had an Italian guide named Vinchenzo! He spoke REALLY fast! Apparently the people of Pompeii had a fast food restaurant, a forum, a jail, a sports arena, and a theater with sound amplification off the floor. We also saw molds of people...

Rome was AMAZING- same a lot again in a little time. We first saw the Colosseum and what a way to begin Rome! It was about the size we imagined seating about 40,000 (half the Big House) and we saw the area were the gladiators and animals fought. So cool that a structure is still standing after that long! Then we saw the Trevi Fountain- a seascape with fountains featuring Neptune. It was very neat, but super crowded- we are glad we came to Rome in the "o...