Back on Track!

Hello all,

We have 5 disposable cameras and Iàm sure we will fill them all up before the trip is through. Things are back on the track to a wonderful life! we had a great experience in Palermo. The bus there was nice. It had a rest stop, and I'm a huge fan of european rest stops. They are just on a whole new level. I had a fanta and thought i was going to miss my bus, but the bus driver was just going onto the bus to grab a cigarette...

(For those of you who don't know, I have an obsession with Fanta from europe. I don't drink a lot of soda, but when I'm over here I drink as much fanta as I can! its Fanta abulous!)

Our bed and breakfast was much better than the last hotel experiance, mainly because we had running hot water! also there were candies by the bed. we did a little belly dancing and then walked around the city abit. (I am also remembering that I did not tell you about the belly dancing outfit purchase by Kate in Istanbul. It jingles and Kate looks like Shakira in it. We like to try it on in our rooms and dance a bit. It makes us feel good. We think that since we didn't belly dance in Siracusa, that is the source of the afore mentioned rough patch problem.)

so we had an amazing sicilian dinner with a darling waiter. We arrived early for an italian dinner and he served us some antipastos (which were later cancelled out by my pasto, so I didn't gain any wait! see Nick Gates' comment) and champagne! he then proceeded to change in to a shirt and tie and we quickly realised that this dinner was not going to be in our budget... We treatd ourselves and siad that this was the beginning of the end of the rough patch!

We walked around Palermo the next morning, it was amazing! they have the second oldest greek theater and we could just walk around on it! was sat and pretended to enjoy greek tragedys. we then met a woman from New Zealand. Our fist one! haha, we always meet aussies and I was wondering if I would meet someone from New Zealand, and I did! so we talked to her a bit. She was pretty wrapped up in figuring out the map and we were pretty wrapped up in frolicking!

we pretended like we were dinasaurs for a while and walked into dyonises ear.. which was pretty creepy. Then we say the tomb of archemedes. I used the postcard I had to identify our find. Kates uncle or whatever kept talking about archemedes and that he did something in Siracusa... I've been lying to you. the greek theatre was in Siracusa... in Polermo we went to an art museum and went into a bunch of churches from the Renaissance period. It was a much bigger scity than Siracusa.

We then caught a ferry to Naples. We immediately got on an inter-city train to Pompei!! that is definitely something thats been on my list of things to do since I was in grade school and reading a childrens book about the eruption! It was our mecca for archeological frolicking! I mean we've just seen so much archeological things this trip and it was a great addition! It took us 6 hours or so to frolick around it. We were pretty pooped afterwards. Luckily we met some nice australians who told us which hostel they were staying at, and now we are here. we are about to go se Napels and see the archeology museum that actually holds all the things that used to be in Pompei. We were pretty pissed because it said multiple times, this is where we found blah, and its housed in the archeology museum in Naples. We saw the casts of people that were covered with ash. It was just an amazing!

ok, off to Rome next :( its our last city! I cna't believe it. We findly found out when Rome was founded and when it became christian- 753BC or around then.. and 324 about... so we are learning dates! if you know any history about the old testament and when it was written, we'd appreciate the input. We've got a lot of questions.

ciao!

PS: Ive got post cards to send out once I"m home. I've already written them, but gettting to the post office is such a hassel so they'll be sent from america and you'll just have to accept it.