In rome now. Actually wrote a post earlier from the philly airport, but have not posted it and it is buried on my laptop in my bag. So we will jump right in here. (You might be noticing the lack of contractions in my writing -- I am using a computer in a Roman laundromat and I have not yet found the apostrophe on the Italian keyboard!) Also do not think I can post pictures from this machine. I have them on my camera, but no easy way to get them off. So that will come later.

I think I am going to start a seperate blog just for the Italy stuff -- stay tuned for details.