So much to say!!!

So, it's been a loooong time since I've blogged. Finding an internet cafe that lets you enable cookies is pretty hard here, so I haven't had access.

First off, thanks for all the birthday wishes! I've read every one and laughed at a few of them (you know who you are). Thanks for making the big day even better.

So, since we've been in Firenze (Florence) we've gone throughout the old city, taken the train to Pisa and Siena, and made the 11 hour trek by train to Torino. I definitely can say that Torino was the highlight so far!!! We didn't go into the Olympic village, so I got no photos of all that. I did, however, get to see my "family" from Denver! We vistited the YWAM crew in Torre Pellice right outside of Torino and I got to hang out with some of my favorite people in the world, as well as meet a few new ones that I loved hanging out with. I must say that it was worth the 11 hours to get there and the 10 to make it back to our bed and breakfast.

We've kind of figured out why we get stared at so much ... there are Africans here, but I don't think they get a lot of black female Americans here. Most people ask if we're from Central America or Brazil. Well you know me ... I'd claim the Brazil in a heartbeat, but Dianne keeps me honest. We usually say we're from America, but they tell us "no, where are you really from?" We let them know that we're originally from the Caribbean and they all say "aaaaaah". It's cool that they realize that we look different.

Tomorrow we make our way to Venice where I'll hopefully get to do the gondola ride. Yay! After a few days there we will work our way up through Switzerland to Munich, Germany for a week.

As for photos ... let's just say that italian internet cafes don't exactly have high-speed internet. I tried again to upload photos for you guys to see, but it was taking 20 minutes to upload 10. We'll see if I can get that fixed in Venice. Photos in Florence aren't that great, since they don't have teh greatest of weather at the moment ... very overcast. Pisa and Siena are better, so I'll definitely try to get those up and running.

If you want to take a look at some of the Rome photos, here's the link: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/usvichica/album?.dir=/4506&.src=ph&.tok=phYuzdEBwa_6andP

Hmmmm ... it's almost 7 now, so I'm off to our favorite place for proscuitto and artichoke pizza. Ta ta for now!

Moi