Finally, on our last night here in Rome i can connect to internet! its been SO frustrating, have been trying to email from Venice, Sienna, and Florence. our reliable email cafe shut down and it has been internet cafe nightmare everywhere else. other places wouldn’t even help me get the computer in English. we didn’t go to visit friends in France, felt we needed more photos for the CAA presentation so have traveled to many places to get photos. its been a wild ride! snow in Florence postponing our ride to Rome, hasn’t snowed for 20 years like it did on our last night Friday. all the free spirits were out, we were out photographing, and heard opera singing so followed the voice... a wonderful American woman singing opera, ave maria, while the snow was falling on us... Florence people- warm and kind to us. Rome today.... photos of Coliseum and Vatican. Rome is a party town but i didn’t have enough time to photo all the ruins i would have liked. Venice - wrote long emails to you and couldn’t send them out. have the best photos from Venice, really beautiful. Don’t’ know how i survived all that we did! the Italians are so lovely and warm. very friendly’, i was very comfortable walking up to anyone knowing they spoke no English and just saying what i needed help with. ran around Sienna looking for Santa Katrina's church. found it and all this travel has brought up memories of being raised catholic. at the Vatican today, what a strange experience. the museum was closed and i was so disappointed as i went there just to photo angels. have kept a journal so maybe we can back track. well, its been sweet being in the Christmas days in Italy. caio caio bella, need to repack again .... kim♦