Sooo We've been pretty busy.

Our last week of the Opera summer program has come and gone, and we are all packed up and ready to leave the country. Most everyone, with the exception of a handful, are already home safe and sound. LuanaLei and I decided, when booking our flights, that it would be a good idea to stick around in Rome afterword to see the sights. We had no IDEA then how we would feel about this and if we would even consider not staying and booking and early flight home. Well, after a bit of drama we decide to stick it out and forgo seeing our families earlier...besides when will we ever come back to Rome? So as we have stayed and site seen and loved almost everything about this city that makes it famous. Hahaha I have discovered a few more things;

1. I do not like living in a overly warm climate with a million percent Humidity
2. Rome is beautiful and the Italians are generally nice BUT do not let go of your purse zippers on the Metro or places with lots of people and try not to be a loud obnoxious American...they are not a fan.
3. Walking everywhere has made me realize how much I use my car at home...I have discovered how lazy Americans seem to be and have come to the conclusion that I don't care and I like my car. I just might have to hit the gym in warm weather more often.
4. As much fun as it is to say that I am in Rome and am seeing exotic places...it doesn't mean a whole lot when your married and cant share it with your husband.
5. I hate to say it but I am grateful to the amazingly convenient Walmart, makes my life easier.
6. I love breakfasts with protein, eggs, pancakes, sausage, bacon, orange juice, hash-browns and every other american breakfast food item...the Italian way sucks. It's all pastries and bread. Not that I don't LOVE pastries and bread but a PERSON NEEDS ENERGY!
7. I am grateful for converters but...I miss my America outlets!
8. I love my pillows and mattress.
9. That cars and the driving rules we have in America are important! Italians have little cars with little streets. They also park nearly anywhere, they stop anywhere, they stop right before they hit things, they drive their cars in very tightly confound places...scares the bloody crap out of me.
10. The Italian language is beautiful and I have loved trying to speak it, but if I hear one more Italian scoff with "...Americani..." or push things in my face to buy again, I might blow a gas-git.

So basically there are alot of things I miss and a lot of things that I think are wonderful here. But I think the biggest lesson I learned here was this:

~Tutto il mondo e Paese~

This means roughly translated "The whole world is one country". I think that this could be taken to heart and meant many things to different people. But what my thoughts were as I learned this phrase was rather simple. That there is no place like home. The whole world is one gigantic place and there are many things to see and do and people to meet but boy it wouldn't mean a dit if I didn't have someone to share it with. The people we love are the most important things or should be the most important things to us. The world can go on and you can have many adventures and continue to realize that traveling is fun and hard, but for me nothing will mean as much if I didn't have my family. So thank you so much my dear family, old and new! :) I love you! oh and.....I'M GOING HOME, I'M SO EXCITED!!! 

till next time!