Sorry if it seams like i haven't blogged in a while... Rome, Italy is 8 hours ahead of MT and 6 hours ahead of EST (of course:) So its 8:30 pm while it is 12:30 pm (afternoon) in SD and 2:30 pm in FL. Now for something random: When we were still at the hotel, Reynolds was flinging his key-card in the air and it got stuck in the light, under the light, which was stuck in a glass case. so yea, it got through pretty weirdly. Later, We got on our plane from Dallas to Phillie and that took 3 hours. After getting off the plane, it was time to board the flight from Phillie to Venice. We got on the plane and the rows were 2-3-2 and that was cool. The first class had seats that reclined farther and had a leg rest that came out with a push of a button. We had to sleep so we wouldn't get jet-lag. They had TV's on the ceiling and they played -> How I Met Your Mother (T'was about a flying beetle/mouse and some dude finding love), Dear John (good movie, non-conclusional ending), Fantastic Mr. Fox (Kept reminding me of "Domo-ari-gotoe mister robot-o, Domo" It was about the animals fighting against the farmers and yea...), Percy Jockson and the Olympians (Already saw it, so i slept through it, but it was about the son of Poseidon, who is accused of stealing Zeus' bolt and he returns it and they all live, but not Hermes Son, he was stabbed in the throat with a water-made trident). The flight took 12 hours... they served drinks 4 times, gave out Danishes (My favorite part of the flight) and fed us chicken or pasta (your choice, but don't pick pasta: not that good) Other then that and tryng to sleep against Roo's hip (which is anything but comfortable) the plane ride had nothing going on. We made it Venice and went to our plane to take us to Rome. It was only 45 minutes so Reynolds and I played my "Millionaire Tycoon" game the whole time. When we got to Rome we came out to the baggage claim, which didn't bring luggage out until what seemed like an hour. We got in a taxi after we got our bags, went to the hotel, and walked/took the Metropolitan to the Vatican. That place has soooo many sculptures of naked dudes, popes, and more naked dudes! very odd... There was also a purple marble that a bunch of these people used up and there is no more today, but i saw the purple marble all over the Vatican, so yea... THEY won't be running out of it any time soon. We saw a bunch of incredible paintings on the wall, including the one with God and Adam almost touching fingers, but got no picture because the people were very, very, VERY strict on having everyone not taking pictures. They would go, "SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhh!" very loudly and they would do that every minute. there were more than 30 rugs that were over 12'x14' the resurrection rug of Jesus made his knee and eyes follow you. WE saw mummys, stones, vases full of guts, mummy tombs, a hallway filled with well over 1000 sculptures of different heads, a big revolving ball with a cool design in it, big archways, dead pope's clothing, where St. Peter was crucified, and we heard the sermon going on in the Church also, some good organ (i think). So yea... On to tomorrow!

Lovin' It

Jeff Loftus (F®3€-|\/|oπ)