Viaggio 2011- 6 in Italia!

Wonderful opportunity for another trip to Italy! This time I get to go with my husband Jim, our youngest two sons, Zachary (18) and Joseph (16), and my parents, Shery and Tim. Can't wait for all of us to share in the making of some lifetime memories as we enjoy the beautiful city of Roma with it's thousands of years of history and art and in turn take whatever mishaps may come our way and make fun memories out of them too! We have reserved an apartment maybe 50 yards from the Pantheon, so I think we have the best location possible for enjoying the centro storico area, we'll be able to walk to lots of the main sites, the metro and bus stops aren't too far away when we want to travel a little further afield.

Join our trip if this interests you, the plan is to check in here every couple of days and give updates. This will happen if our apartment actually has the wifi it's supposed to! If not, it will be hit and miss...

Here is a rough plan for a few of our days: you know how it goes when your plan hits reality so we'll let you know what we actually do.

Friday, March 25th: Arrival!!
get picked up at the airport,
settle into the apt, find grocery store.. find gelato... this will be a theme,
Free Walking Tour- meets at the Spanish steps (will be a good orientation for the guys that haven't been here),
CRASH into our beds!

Saturday:
Vatican - have the tickets for entry at 9:30,
leaving the rest of the day open, as this will take quite a while, we'll walk around and enjoy being here ;-),
Gelato

Sunday:
Church at Rome Baptist!
Gladiator School for Zach and Joe, it's located about 1 1/2 miles from the Colleseum,
Gelato

Monday:
Scavi Tour- this is the necropolis under St. Peters,
Will end the tour in St. Peters, will take a while wandering through, hopefully will hike to the top of the dome, haven't done that yet.
Jewish ghetto?,
Gelato

Tuesday:
Coleseo/Forum/Palatine Hill...............
Gelato

Wednesday:
Villa Torlonia, catacombs of Pricilla and Church of St. Agnes, Borghese Gallery?,
Gelato

Thursday:
Mamertine Prison! Trajans Forum, Scala Sacra, St. Peter in Chains, will spend the day in this area,
Gelato

Friday:
Day trip to Florence....
Gelato from Florence!

Saturday:
Check in online for our flights, walk and enjoy the city! try to catch what we've missed....
one last Gelato...

I haven't listed most things that we'll be seeing, this is a rough outline and no doubt we will cram many things in between and leave some out as that does happen...

One of my personal adventures that I'm looking forward to is hopefully making my Italian teacher, Viviana, proud by using the Italian she has tried to teach me. Can't wait to try it out on anyone that will let me! will let you know how that turns out.... ;-)

Would love to hear from anyone that wants to join us on our family adventure!

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Trip Length: 10 days
Blog Entries: 8
Photos: 21
Words: 4041

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Blog Entries

Date	Blog Title	Location
March 28th 2011	Yes, we're here.... !	Europe » Italy
March 29th 2011	Colosseo	Europe » Italy
March 30th 2011	Finally getting back here to finish up!	Europe » Italy
March 31st 2011	Villa Torlonia	Europe » Italy
April 1st 2011	On to Florence!	Europe » Italy
April 2nd 2011	Last Night...	Europe » Italy
April 2nd 2011	Last day in Roma	Europe » Italy
April 3rd 2011	Trip Home	Europe » Italy