ROME!

Friends, Romans, Countrymen! I have not come to day to praise Caesar, but to bury him. Veni, Vidi, Vici! When in Rome...
Enough! We had a great time! We toured until we dropped and then walked another kilometer or two! But we saw more than I can even recount. (Talk to my mom, Sue. She has an hour by hour account--even where we ate and what we ordered.)
Here are the basics:
Places: Rome & Florence
Sites: Colosseum/Constantine's Arch, Roman Forum,Palatine Hill, St. Peter's Square, Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Pantheon, Trajan's Column, Bocca della Verita (Mouth of Truth), Ponte Vecchio, Pallazo Vecchio, Piazzala Michaelangelo, ___'s? Catacombs
Museums: Vatican Museum (w/Sistine Chapel), Uffizi Gallery (with Bottecelli's Primavera and Birth of Venus, Roman National Museum, and the Accademy (Michaelangelo's David).

We also happened to see the Pope in his Popemobile, but we were actually just out to get gelatto and decided to swing by St. Peter's so we didn't have the camera. :(

More to come!

Hair III

More hair.

More hair

By the way, this is actually just Robyn's hair we put on her head. She has almost no hair.
Still a cutie.

New hairdo

Oh, I just had it trimmed a little in the back... Do you like it?

Friends--Ali

Ali is one of Luke's friends from the gym. He came to watch the Saints whoop up on the ponies and found a new friend to play with in Anastasia. Luke had a good time trying to explain football (American style) in Turkish. It went something like this:

The ball thrower takes the ball and throws it to a person who catches it. He runs. Other people try to make him fall. If he goes 10ish meters, he gets 4 new chances to do it all again. When the ball goes over the last line, the team with the ball gets 6 points and gets to try to kick the ball between the high sticks.

If they fall too much or don't catch the ball in 3 tries, they have to kick the ball or try to kick the ball between the two high sticks again.

Ali: Ohhhh...(Turkish for "huh?")

(picture to come)