Ahh, Florence.......you stole our hearts

We are leaving Florence today after a wonderful week. We had a break early on for 2 days in Paris. That was wonderful!!

We are all healthy, happy and very well fed. It's wonderful because we can eat anything we want because we walk everywhere we go, up to 4 to 5 miles a day. None of us are gaining weight. I think I've lost about 5 pounds do to the walking.

Today, we leave Florence via EuroStar train to Rome. It takes 1 1/2 hours because there is only one stop between here and there. Our new bed and breakfast inn awaits. So far our accommodations have been awesome. Comfortable beds and safe locations.

In Rome, we have reservations for a guided tour of the Vatican and have planned to see at least 2 museums. Cari will leave from Rome to go home. She's not ready to go back to the US. She loves it here so much.

The best thing to happen so far as shopping is concerned is that we met a clothing designer with his own shop here in Florence. He sold Carol and I each leather/suede coats for his cost and Cari a designer hand bag for his cost. He saved us about 2500 Euros which was awesome to say the least. He was just adorable. Very friendly, flirtatious and fun. Totally spoiled us in his shop with champagne while we tried on clothes. It was such a EVENT. We were swept away.

We haven't heard any news from the US so we are getting a little hungry for some information. We can't understand their news shows so we don't bother turning on the TV.

Hope all of you are doing great. I will be posting the pictures of the trip when I get home via email rather than loading them on the blog. Takes way too much time.

Our love to you all!

Kathy