La vie est belle

Thursday, December 09, 2004


A really cool shot of the Colosseum after the roman soldiers tried to pick katie up Posted by Hello

Russell Crowe gave us a personal tour through the inside of the colosseum...dead lions and everything Posted by Hello

Allegedly our greatest wish will come true since we threw a coin into the famous Trevi fountain  Posted by Hello

We don't know what this man is pondering, but we thought it would be funny to imitate him Posted by Hello

cool! Posted by Hello

Roman ruins, more like a big rock garden Posted by Hello

A really cool wall of beautiful paintings inside the Vatican museum Posted by Hello

These are our two Canadian friends, Andy and Lars, who we met in Rome and traveled to Florence, Pisa and Cinqueterre with...three goodbyes and lots of laughs... good times. this picture is in front of the famous ponte veccio, the only bridge not to be destroyed during world war II. Cool! Posted by Hello

Look who we ran into...more sevilla folks getting gelato  Posted by Hello

Kelly's view of the streets before getting hit by the car behind her...haha, oops Posted by Hello

Katie and Kelly hit the beatiful streets of florence Posted by Hello

Reprocussions of the fall. Kelly tried to climb a hill in the rain to see a view of florence Posted by Hello

Our "lookout point" in Florence, which our hostel friend Stewart told us about. were not sure if this is really it because we lost our map Posted by Hello

Okay, these are two creepy italian brothers that owned the hostel and cooked for us one night Posted by Hello

All of our new found hostel friends after escaping the "worst anarchist party ever" Posted by Hello

Katie and Kelly at the boy's hostel Posted by Hello

and if you don't know what an anarchist party looks like, this is it...european style Posted by Hello

cute andy loved cooking, so we were lucky enough to get all of our meals cooked by "chef boy r ween" :) Posted by Hello

A small stop on the way to Cinqueterre at Pisa! On and off the train...just need 10 minutes Posted by Hello

Lars on the train trying to eat a ham and cheese sandwich with balsalmic vinaigrette all over his right leg. Posted by Hello

Andy, our Canadian friend, in our cozy apartment Posted by Hello

First night in Riomaggorie, we were welcomed with this beautiful sunset, which we ran across the train tracks to see...oops Posted by Hello

Okay, Cinqueterre was the second to last city we visited in Italy but it was definitely the best of the four. We did a 5 and a half hour hike on the side of a mountain, through the five cities, which all overlooked the Mediterranean sea...we stayed in the first town, Riomaggorie, in a cute little apartment with our Canadian friends  Posted by Hello

Peeking out of the bushes on the first trail from riomaggorie Posted by Hello

One of the many exotic looking houses on the way up the mountain Posted by Hello