Viva Italia!

With kids still on term break last week, we took advantage of grandparents and scooted over to Italy for 5 days visiting Venice, Florence, and Pisa. Weather could have been better (only one really nice day), but the crowds were very manageable, thus a trade-off.

We also came to realize that at this stage in the game, we're past the backpacking through Europe idealogy. We're on the 'save up your money, get a good hotel, and eat out at the best restaurants you can' stage. Oh yeah. That's the way to go for sure!