the end of our journey

Well, I know it is now Thursday, and a lot has happened since Monday. The Sistine Chapel was a 3 hour tour, which ended in St. Peter's Square. The Vatican museum is the largest in the world...it was really neat to see all those old paintings and artifacts. Did you know, that if you looked at every display in the museum for 60 seconds each, you would be there for 12 years?!? Crazy. Anyway, we we glad to have booked tickets in advance to "skip the line" (thanks mom!) because it was really hot out and the lines were super long. After our tour, we went to get some pizza at little corner restaurant. The man that seated us looked at Kelsi and said something to the effect of "milk woman", talking about her skin...then he asked if we wanted to sit in the sun or shade, when we said shade he pointed to the sun and told Kelsi to sit there...then proceeded to say he would marry her if she sat in the sun for awhile! He was laughing the whole time...as were we! After our delicious pizza dinner, we HAD to go get some gelato. Gelato is all over this country and is absolutely, amazingly DELICIOUS. It's similar to ice cream, but much more light and refreshing and tasty. Words just cannot explain it. :)

The next day was our last day in Italy. I (Asha) ventured out early in search for some real cappuccino! It was sooo good. We all went on a Hop on-Hop off tour of Rome, where we saw the Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, Colosseum, etc. We got a bit sidetracked in the shopping districts, and bought many things...olive oils, wines, pastas, paintings, jewelery...it was great! We had yummy pizza again for lunch and finished off our tour in the late afternoon. Lots of pasta and gelato later...we had finished our adventures in Rome. Packing up is never fun...but we had such a great trip and so many memories! We have all arrived to Chicago safely (but very exhausted and tired of flying!), and are already planning our next trip.... ;)

You may wonder what happened with the relationship with my Hot Irishman that was mentioned earlier in the post. Well, I had to say...he has shriveled away to nothing, so I just cannot continue with him. I mean, when you are delicious fudge, you don't stay around too long!
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