Rome

Well we made it to Rome. We are on the final leg of our journey and we might be ok with that. Not sure I am ready to get back to the daily grind but I would hate to miss all of fair week. Went and saw the Coloseum. Was very cool have no idea how they build that when they did. We are staging tonight. We came back early to blog and have map out the vision quest to the Vatican tomorrow. I even got a brochure today about becoming a Catholic. Don't know if that is going to happen though. I also have a TV so I am stoked the only english channel I have found is MTV and I am not impressed with Jersey Shore. Not sure why people watch it but o well. A big plus is the shower here has the most water pressure of any we have encountered on the trip. If you are staying somewhere with a shared bathroom make sure to lock the door. Some young lady opened the door on me and not sure what she said but I could tell she was not happy in what ever language she was speaking. If I get to kiss the popes ring tomorrow that will be the highlight of the trip.

Venice

Very glad we stopped in Venice. I am also very glad it was only for a day. It was very neat to see how they park boats outside of their houses like we park cars. First time I have ever been on a boat bus. We just hopped on and it took us everywhere we wanted to go. I think I had the best food yet in Venice. Had an awesome calzone. It was as big as your head. It sucked that Venice is sinking a lot of front doors had water part way up. It was a great stop but sleeping wasn't fun. All night Abby claims she was attacked by Italian misquetos. To hear her tell the story she is lucky to have survived the ordeal.

Cinque Terre

We are in Cinque Terre right now it means five lands or something.. We walked the path along the coast to four of the five towns, but I could not cut it on the last town, so we took a boat. The scenery is amazing and so is the food, finally. Tomorrow we are taking the train to Venice. It will be a quick trip. Well almost out of time...

Interlaken

It is beautiful here, once again though, I am not sure if I can upload pictures. I wish I could. We rented bikes again and rode them around the area. The mountains are all around us and so are glacial rivers. We are going to go white water rafting in a little while. There are people parasailing, skydiving, rock climbing, hiking, mountain biking, and even swimming, but I think the water is freezing. Everyone here keeps talking about how hot it is. It feels like a great day to me, about 80 or so. No humidity. Tomorrow we are headed on the train to Cinque Terre. I have a feeling the scenery there is going to be just as amazing as it is here. Once again we will be along the Med. coast when we arrive. I can not get our pictures up right now, but I might come back later if I have time with the camera cord....

German food is gross

Well after 4 days in Germany Kyle and I can not wait to head to Italy for some good food! Tonight we had some nasty sausages and Kyle had this super salty spam-like meat. The only thing that is really good so far is the bread... but that has been pretty much everywhere in Europe. There's a huge gay rally going on in the Marienplatz so that is taking a lot away from the authentic German experience. The German flags are replaced by Rainbow flags, but that too is an experience in itself. We can not upload pictures here because the computers are on super lock down, but it is the nicest place we've been so far. Looking forward to our train ride tomorrow through the Alps. We will be stopping somewhere, we're not sure where to switch planes, but I'm hoping it's in Austria. We shall see.

Munich

so far it has been cold and rainy here in Munich. We like it here though and hope to come back sometime soon. It's nice to be in a smaller city where we can navigate things easily. Today we went to Dachau, the concentration camp which was interesting, but quite depressing. There was so much information and history. The beer gardens are nice, the beer isn't too bad... although it is not going to be my drink of choice anytime soon. Well off to buy a train ticket to Switzerland.

Berlin

Well Berlin is full of history, much of which is new to me... I guess I missed that part in history class. We rented bikes today and did a bike tour yesterday that took us to all of the Hitler historical places. The berlin wall and stor was interesting, theres not much left but we got a piece of it to bring home. Since Kyle volunteered to be the guy who stayed at the back of the bike tour group and made sure everyone was still coming, we got that souviner. Germany is nice, the people are nice and very helpful. although its not very german-ish here. Wheres the lederhosen and german bands? Im hoping to see that when we are in Munich tomorrow. Im thinking we're really going to like Munich. Our room is nice, well as nice as you'd expect. There's a shower stall in the middle of the room... kind of strange. We'll were off to Munich tomorrow, hopefully I'll find a computer there.