Hello Friends (and family) or should I say Ciao! As you all know I spent the last ten days traveling with my Aunt Roe around Italy. The trip was as fun as it was amazing! Everyone has told me how great Italy was and I was not sure it would live up to my expectations but it did. Rome is a great city with wonderful people, food and well the scenery is like no other. While our trip started with us not reading the self check-in properly in the airport where it clearly stated "slide passport here", getting ripped off by the cab driver from the airport and ending up at a Lebanese restaurant for our first lunch with a pre set menu that could have fed the entire Italian army. We however rallied like champs and didn't look back. The food was amazing...it is as good as everyone says. I took a picture of pretty much every lunch and dinner I had just so I could remember how good it really was. The Gelato? Well that literally is a "slice of heaven" as Aunt Roe would say as she ate her pistachio each day. I on theFed other hand got crazy and tried a different flavor each day, my favorite was mint chocolate chip :)
We made several friends on our trip, most of which were 60 year old couples. My favorite couple though were the 70 year old Aussie's who we met in the hotel bar. They were charming and lovable and bought us wonderful Champagne. The other set of friends that I made were the members of the Sofitel staff. Fabio - the front desk guy greeted me a smile every day, would draw on the map where I should go that day and when I returned from a busy day would listen as I yammered about my day (I'm not confident he actually ever knew what I was saying). My other friends were the bar staff. Antonio (who I let order my lunch once and I got a BLT and fries- signs we weren't soul mates) and Federico, my new e-mail buddy. They were very entertained by us at the hotel bar at night. I often tried to turn it into a "bumpn" club but apparently the music had to stay mellow due to the rooms on the 7th floor. My only complaint about the Sofitel was the cookies and wine in our room Aunt Roe and I came back to our last day there only to realize (when the note was written in French) that it wasn't for us and we had to give it back (that's right I gave back cookies).
The Amalfi Coast was incredibly beautiful I would argue that the food there was even better than in Rome. My favorite of these towns was Ravello. It lacked the traffic that the other places did and the scenery was by far the most breathtaking.
Overall I would say I was most amazed by our last day in Rome which was spent at the Vatican, St. Peters and three other Basilicas. The history nerd in me was speechless as I stared at the work of Rafael and gazed up at the Sistine Chapel. Overall, great trip with lots of laughs and excellent food! Shout out to Aunt Roe - boom boom pow :)
The following congratuations is in order: Lauren and Mike, my dear friends got engaged while I was away. Katie K is moving to Wilmington the end of June and Joseph Peltzer also go a job at Drexel University. Love all of you :)
Tomorrow is my first day at my new job... cross your fingers :)
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