Travel Updates

Wow, lots of news about traveling this week.

Let's start off with the most recent. So this weekend, I'm going to Venice for Carnivale (Mardi Gras) which should be awesome. Our train leaves Rome at 11 pm Friday night and we arrive in Venice at 6am Saturday morning. We have the whole day in Venice and then our train leaves Venice to come back to Rome at 11:30 pm Saturday night and we get back here in Rome around 7am Sunday morning. Ha, pretty crazy, right? I guess that makes it a 32 hour trip, with two nights spent sleeping on a train. Should be a fun time!

Next on the agenda is the fantastic news that my lovely sister Maria will be joining me for a week before my spring break starts in mid-March. Should be a fun time. I'll be in school taking mid terms that week so I'll have to unleash her alone into Rome, knowing her sense of direction this might be bad news. Also, Italy will be celebrating it's 150th anniversary while she's here so that should be a fun celebration to be a part of.

THEN, Leigh and I just finalized our spring break plans. We're off to Canary Islands for a week!! We leave on the day Maria leaves to go back to America. Pretty spontaneous but it should be an amazing trip, I'm so excited! Volcanoes, Scuba diving, mountains, beaches, zoos, etc etc, what an awesome place for Spring break 2011!!

My parents are then coming over the day I get back from the Canary Islands. They'll be here for a week and some so hopefully we'll get to take a cool weekend trip that first weekend of April.

Okay, moving right along, Second week of April I've got a weekend 3 day trip to Pompeii, Capri, Sorrento and Mt. Vesuvius. I might be looking forward to this trip more than anything so far. This is going to be awesome hiking to the top of the mountain and seeing that amazing ancient city of Pompeii.

After that, I'm taking a break from traveling. Whew. That leaves about 4 weekends left in Rome I think, I'm sure I'll find myself making one last trip before Adam and I leave for our EuroTrip on May 14th! We're getting into booking that right now. Rome, Pisa, Tuscany, Paris, Normandy, Brussels, Amsterdam and London!! 15 days of great fun! Best way to end this amazing journey. I don't want to think about leaving yet.

Wow, so I guess that leaves me next weekend (of March 4th, my birthday!) as the only weekend until mid-April that I don't have something planned. This is going to be a whirlwind of adventure. Oh right, I do have that St Peters Tomb tour on my birthday to look forward to that weekend, and of course, celebrating my 20th birthday.

What do you guys think of these travel plans? Any other stops I should hit? I still have a dream to see Egypt, and have always had that dream since I was a kid, you can ask my family. It's got to be cheaper now more than ever to go there. I think it's a good idea..right?