Thanks! 5/28/06 Was a treat when I checked my email tonight and found your blog.
Really enjoy keeping up with your travels. WOW. Didn't know you had been to Hollywood.
Love the pics, especially when you're in them.
Have a wonderful adventure.
Love you, Aunt Diane
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To Katie, Our Architect at Heart Thank you for the personal beach photo. Love it. We know you are an architect at heart because you put the flip flops in for a scale reference. Have fun and stay safe. We miss you.
Hey arkansassouthernbelle niece!! I am SO jealous. I love looking at your great pictures and reading your interesting entries. The only thing better would be to be there with you!! Keep having fun. I love you. Your mother's favorite sister.
To My Roma Travelgirl Did the ceiling in Santa Croce remind you of St. Mary's? From the picture they look similar. The painted ceilings of Santa Maria del Fiore and the Baptistry would make me want to look up during chruch services. Maybe the people that go there are used to them. You looked very pretty in the last picture, but it looked like you were going for sugar overload! Can't wait for the next installment of your travelblog.
Yay! Thanks for the apartment pictures! It's nice to see where you are staying. I really wish I was there. I'm currently reading a book by a travel journalist, and it's really making me crave some overseas adventures. It's snowing in my part of the world right now. Alaska snow is definitely prettier than Arkansas snow. My town is significantly more aesthetically pleasing when covered in a layer of snow. You're fortunate that your neck of the woods is beautiful year round and certainly much more enthralling than mine.
Bro sez hi! Yeh! I love the journal and pictures! Sounds like a great experience and I wish I could visit. I wound also like to see pictures of your new place, minus the laundry.
I wish I was there! Hey there, my beautiful, talented cousin. I'm enjoying reading about your exploits in Italy, and the pictures are great. I keep telling all my guys here in Alaska about what you're up to, but they're a rather self-involved group of men. I think my excited utterances mostly sound like a vague buzzing noise to them. I want to see some pictures of where you're living. Hey, I'm a girl, I dig details. Be safe and and have fun. It's been a long time since we were little girls playing with Barbies, huh?
How wonderful Katie, I am so happy for you and do understand how you feel looking at all the OLD buildings. I found while in the Netherlands that I could stand and look at the beautiful architecture endlessly. So happy you had the chance to go there. Be safe and enjoy every moment there.
exactly my thoughts!! came across your entry because i just arrived in rome this morning and i've studied a bit of architecture too... i swear, most of today i was so happy that i was traveling alone because none of my friends could possibly appreciate the coffered ceilings or the archways and building materials to that extent and probably would have thrown me in the trevi fountain. and passing the coloseum in the middle of the night in the taxi... i was thinking, this stuff can't be real - it's in my textbooks!!
I’m a fourth year architecture major at the University of Arkansas (Go Hogs!). I’ll be spending the semester in Italy, as I am participating in our school’s study abroad program in Rome.
“If I look at some excellent statue, I say within my heart: "When will you be able to remove the excess from a block of marble and reveal so lovely a figure hidden therein? When will you know how to mix different colors and spread them over a canvas or a wall and represent all visible objects by their means, like a Michelangelo, a Raphael, or a Titian?”
-Galileo Galilei “Dialogue Concerning the Two ... full info
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Thanks! 5/28/06
Was a treat when I checked my email tonight and found your blog. Really enjoy keeping up with your travels. WOW. Didn't know you had been to Hollywood. Love the pics, especially when you're in them. Have a wonderful adventure. Love you, Aunt Diane .