Oh! The places you'll go (and we went!)

I'm thinking about writing a book....not really i guess, but with as much as we did these past two weeks, I'm sure i could fill at least a hundred or so pages. I already have a title. and i suppose i could throw the rest of this past semester in there also....who knows.

anyways, the point of this post is to just let you all know that i have returned safely from my two week vacation around the Mediterranean and that there will be more details to come later, hopefully soon.  Just thinking about organizing all my thoughts about what we did and saw and ate and who we met is giving me a headache.  im guessing it will be more or less a two or three part series. so be on the look out!

in other news, my parents are coming NEXT THURSDAY!!!! actually, they leave the states on wednesday night and get here the next morning....major jet lag. But, we only have a couple of days together before they have to go home again, so we'll have to make them full and worth it!  I'm so excited, and i'm pretty sure they are too.  and dont worry, i'll be sure to document my dad walking around barcelona with all the rest of its population, and also try to keep him out of trouble ;) love you and miss you all! only 44 days til i come HOME!

Oh Roma

Just a quick note tO let you know I'm safe in Rome,Italy. Getting here turned out to be a bit of an adventure, but we made it! After checking in at our hostel, we wandered around looking for something to eat, of course. And stopped at this cute little restaurant. We can now check eating pizza, pasta and some sort of Italian dessert off our lists! I felt like I was in the lady and the tramp with the live music playing in the background, and the atmosphere of the place. Getting up early tomorrow to walk around St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican museum and the Sistine chapel! So excited! More updates soon! Love, Keri

great moments. are born. from great opportunities....

...at least that's what we're hoping.  sincerest apologies once again for my lack of updates. i realize it has been almost a whole month since my last post, and I've so rudely left you hanging on all the exciting things that are happening in my life.....okay so maybe there were a few exciting things, but i have to have SOME stories to tell when i get home :) anyways, this isn't going to be a novel, cuz my mom told me that all my posts dont have to be, but just a short farewell for now.  If you didn't know, today starts our spring break here in Barcelona, and this is the only day we will actually be IN Barcelona for break, in fact, we fly to Rome in a couple hours, so I dont think it actually counts as a real day.  We will be spending three nights in Rome, checking out all the sites, then flying early Monday morning to Catania, Italy to see my Aunt Faith, Uncle David and cousins.  Uncle David's gonna meet us in Catania and take us around there for the day, before we ferry our way back to Gozo and meet up with Aunt Faith and the boys.  We're staying in Malta for 4 nights, and we fly out on the 22nd at 4:55am headed for Athens.  We will spend that day walking around the city, hopefully after a little nap, and the next morning, we'll take a ferry to the island of Santorini.  After 4 nights there, we return to Athens late the night of the 27th.  We'll have the whole day the 28th to walk around again, hitting any touristy places we missed the first time, and then we head back to Barcelona on the 29th, midday.  I'm a little bit nervous for this break, only because its a whole two weeks long, and we're pretty much planning and traveling around by ourselves, not to mention neither of us really knows what there is to do in any of the places we're going, besides hitting the beach, of course ;) no worries. We'll be sure to hit the Trevi Fountain and the Vatican, the Pantheon, the Caldera and Oia in Santorini, and whatever else we happen upon in our journeys :) also, i have two sets of rechargeable batteries that i'm bringing with me and 8 GB of memory cards...overkill? Anyways, I'll try to check my email and facebook periodically through the trip, so if you wanna shoot me a message or anything, that would be lovely :) however, this message is once again turning into the novel style blog posts i am seemingly unable to avoid, so i will have to say goodbye for now.  Hasta luego, ciao, narak iktar tard (apparently thats maltese for see you later? im not so sure i believe it....this could be an interesting trip...)! love you and miss you all!

~Keri