I have also come to a fabulous conclusion...i never want to have more than 3 kids under the age of 18 months at once and I mean NEVER (which now god will laugh and me and say thats what I'm giving you!!!) Also I have determined that if I ever work in a day care again, I will want to work w/ older kids b/c infants certainly can't hold a conversation :) I work 8 hr days so that is what I'm doing during the week..then I come home eat supper and sleep. There were two days were I had to open the room BY MYSELF at 6 am and I had never opened the room before...no one really told me anything but it went fine and I got through it...since I have only been here one week we haven't really done too much but we have had about 4 adventures....let me tell you about them!
L'avventura Numera Un- Adventure Number One- 1st bus ride in Vicenza 1/20/10
So, Me, Emily, Keri and Ashleigh (three girls doing camp as well...im sure you figured that one out on your own) decided we wanted to go into Vicenza and see if we could find a place to eat or maybe just look around. During orientation week ppl made it seem so easy to get to the bus/train station and then down town would be only a few blocks away. Well we were told to get two tickets at the front desk and get on bus 1...okay that was no problem...then we had to get off at the train station, and they told us we would know it was the train station b/c everyone would get off even the bus driver, and it would just be a straigh shot...sounds easy enough right...WRONG!!! I don't know what that guys was on when he was giving us directions but it was not that simple! We drove and drove and drove until the ppl get off the bus and bus drive pulled over and began reading a book. What do you think I did....I BEGAN TO LAUGH MY BUTT OFF...the same thing pretty much happened to us when I went to Cancun and I couldn't believe it was happening again. So we tried to ask the man if we was done or if he was going to go back..and some how we got that across to him and asked if he could tell us where the train station was...so after he got done reading some of his book he started up the bus again and showed us where to get off this was about 8:15 pm but we weren't done yet. Oh no, we had to figure out how late the trains ran, so we asked some nice lady (who soon turned into a not so nice lady when we told her we didn't have a cell phone and probably regretted telling us how late the buses ran). The lady kinda showed us how to read the bus schedule and we determined the bus only ran till 8:35. AWESOME...good thing we were at the bus station but by the time 8:35 rolled around we still hadn't seen bus 1 going the direction we needed but there was one across the street so we ran over there but the bus driver was no where to be found and there were 3 Italains standing there smoking. We tried to ask them for help but all they told us was to get on bus 7...well we knew that wasn't right b/c we were told to always take bus 1. FINALLY about 8:45 bus 1 showed up at the bus station and we hopped on it. All I could do was laugh the whole way home. It was a fun experience!!
L'avventura Numera Due- VERONA 1/23/10
We took a day trip to Verona the first weekend we were here. It is about maybe 40 min away and only cost 4 euro to get there by train. This was my first real trip out in Italy and my first
real train ride!! YAY ME! That is Me and Emily with our train tickets. But we arivie in Verona and we were all hungry. We at a was seemed like an American place...lol...but the pizza was soo good! It was HUGE too, about as big as my face! 
And it had my all time fave mushroom and my not so fav. ham but thats okay it tasted sooo good.One of the girls brought a Rick Steven's Tour of Italy that has some self guided tours for some town and Verona had one so we all decided to go on a self guided tour which was soo fun, that way we could take our own time and see some really cool spots! There was soo many beautiful places to see and some fun places to shop! Here the places we stopped to see and descriptions of them!
This is the Rome Arena behind us. Usually a building like this would be built outside of the town walls. Over 25,000 spectators have cheered on Roman gladiator battles, medevil executions and modern plays.
We didn't go inside here, even though I wish we had but no one wanted to pay to go inside. SAD!
This was the main entrance to Roman Verona. It function as a toll booth. Just on the other side of this entrance is the ancient city and to the ancient main drag of Verona
We thought it would be fun to have a jumping picture but most of them didn't turn out to well :) I think we had to jump about 4 times and this one was the best one we got you can imagine the fun we had trying to get the pic though.
This is in the Verona square where we had done some shopping. There is a lion if you can see it in the back ground. The Ventian Lion is supposed to remind locals of of their conqurors since 1405.
This fountain has bubbled for 2,000 years. The statue, originally Roman, lost its head and arms. The sculptor added head and arms and it became Verona's Madonna. The banner she holds reads "I want justice and I bring peace."
The town square has a ton a masks and we had found out about Carnavale in Venice. They wear mask and dress up in big dresses. Its kinda like mardi gras. But this is the mask I got to wear there! That is coming soon!
This is the Verona claim to fame, the House of Juliet. There is a little courtyard with a statue of juliet. It is said that if you rub her breast you will be lucky in love...we'll see if that happens :)
This is Juliets balcony where the famous scene took place...What ligh through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun!
This is the love wall where everyone writes love notes. Whether you are single, ina relationship or your heart is breaking. People leave notes here to tie their love to the romantic couple of Romeo and Juliet.
I wrote Jamie + Eric on a used bus ticket and stuck it up w/ gum. So resourceful..I KNOW!
This handsome man would be Dante. He is located in the "square of the lords." This place is more quiet and harmonious. Locals also call this square Piazza Dante b/c of the statue here. Dante never smiling seems to be wondering why ppl chose Juliet over him. He was an Italian poet and was kicked out of Florance for politcal reasons and was allowed to stay in Verona.
It was amazing walking into this place. As soon as I walked in I was hushed...and just looked up all around me. It was soo beautiful!
The only purpose of this stair case is to be impressive. It was alot of stairs to climb and I was out of breath by the time I got to the top :)
I didn't know what was going on behind me but I thought a senior pic pose would be appropriate at this moment.
This was our last stop on our self guided tour. This is call Ponte Pietra. The white stones are from the original Roman bridge that once stood there. The bridge was bombed in WWII and the Veronese fished the marble chunks our of the river to rebuild it.
So, I have set a goal for myself, and that goal is to get a picture in front of every McDonald's I see. Good goal to have when you in Italy, forget seeing The Pope, I wanna find the McDonalds!
I'm not going to eat at the b/c lets be real, I'm sure there is better food SOMEWHERE in Italy than McDonalds :)
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