Almost home!!!!!!!!!!!! Last stop (almost)... Rome!!

OK, we are definitely LOOOOOVVVVVVVEEEEEEE Italia!! Venice was perfection... Bologna also was just a terrific city (ohhhh, the food!) and now we have been in Rome for 2 days and it is awesome as well. Finally found an internet place that likes my photos... too bad I now have over 900, yes that is NINE HUNDRED great shots on my SD card!! This is after deleting all the crappy ones on the train ride to Rome!! What a trip this has been already! So I am obviously not posting 900 photos here on my blog... at this point it will need to wait until we get back, and I will post the link to our Picasa site and you can browse through them when you have an hour to spare!! Here are just a few highlights... I will try to pick just 2 pics from each stop (if I can help myself!!)

Taylor hops right into a black cab at London's Heathrow Airport heading to our hotel... the cabbie has her backpack... they loved the black cabs which fit the Patnodes comfortably in the back... they have 5 seats, facing each other..

Andrew and Lauren resting on a street corner after the London Eye ride... Big Ben and the Parliament in the background.

Many nice beers, many nice pubs... The London Eye and below it, the Mall Road in front of Buckingham Palace...


On to Paris... Luxembourg Gardens (did not lose Lauren here)...Eiffel Tower (did not lose Lauren here)...Euro Disney (did not lose Lauren here)...Exploring the city streets (did not lose Lauren here)...

The Louvre Museum... yep... lost Lauren here!! But she did get to see the Mona Lisa first, and so did Taylor...

Venice...

Bag sale near the Rialto Bridge... I would never have bought 2 of these bags, not even if Taylor bargained them down to a giveaway price... because that would have been WRONG!
Rome... The Trevi Fountain...

Lauren in the Sistine Chapel with her pet lizard...Vatican City...
"Piazza di Spagna" ... On the Spanish Steps...