Many have been asking to see pictures. I made one using yet another service from Google. This is ALMOST all of the pictures. (There is about 1000 at the moment) I will have a few hundred more to add soon. This should keep you all busy for a while!

Here is the link. --> http://picasaweb.google.com/pezhed90

Please note: This is just a beta test site so leave me a comment if any issues come up.

Enjoy
-rYaN-

As some final words I would like to thank EVERYONE for participating in the blog and their comments. Dan did a awesome job planning this and as a result... The trip was awesome! Either way, having this as a link to home made us feel like we were still there. So thanks to you EVERYONE!

I think we were all ready to come home since its been planes, trains, and automobiles for a few weeks straight. A normal routine sounds good right about now. I have a few more images below, but if anyone wants to see more I have 1266 pictures, 65 short video clips, and 2 video tapes full of the whole trip.

As a side note and apology: I use to have a link to a separate site (putfile.com) to show the short video clips. Until yesterday, I found that every once in a while naughty images were popping up on the sides that site. Since I cannot control those random images I have since deleted that link and the site completely. This blog site is safe so feel free to come back here. Sorry.

Till next trip....
Cheers
-rYan-

That is the theme of the last two days... We are about to make our way to the airport but this is a rundown of what we did...

Yesterday was our last FULL day in Rome... After my last post we actually decided to go and see the Colluseum and the Forum ruins. It was a huge to say the least. There were Roman Centurions walking around but they were smoking and drinking water. They looked lazy! Thats probably why the empire fell. The ruins were hot, but they still have water pumping from the Roman aqueducts that gave us free water. It was almost like home water.

We saw some more ruins that home to a miniture cat city. The whole square is set up for the cats to live and have people adopte them. It was like like a cat zoo.

Either way last night had a lot of walking..

Today we took the subway to the Vatican and saw the long line and then waited in it. We saw much art and tapestries. We also saw the Sistine Chapel. It was a lot of art; our necks still ache from looking up. Also we saw St Peters Cathedral, the Spanish steps, Trevi fountain, Piazza Navona, many cobble stone roads, and fountains... I could go on and on...

James is getting restless for a coke, we must go for now.

Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion of The European Vacation...

Sorry for the lag in the posts. We had problems accessing the BLOGGER.com website to make posts.

Yesterday we went to the island of Capri by taking a hydrofoil jet boat. It was fast. Jon almost tasted some guys hair with all the wind. We got off that boat and a local guy (called himself Captin Jack) then offerred to go around half the island in a private boat just for us. It was awesome. The water looked fake blue. Almost like colgate toothpaste. We never actually made it to the blue gratto but we still saw the white gratto and some other awesome sites. We went to the top of the mountain and ate MORE pizza. It had a good view of Mt Vesuvius, and thankfully no hot lava coming out the top. After that we went back to the bungelo and did some laundry. Dan slept and the 3 of us walked around the Sorento downtown area. Very good views at night.

Now we are in Rome now. Very busy area, driving a car is probably the most stressful thing to do. Again this area is swarming with mopeds. They make there own laws, they own the roads. We returned the car today and it felt good. It is too big for these little roads.

Nothing specific planned now but we are talking about taking a bus tour and sitting on the top to take pictures and video.... Now we run and dance like children of the night...

The 4 amigos...

Well we made it. The ferry ride was interesting. The 4 bed cabin was a 6 x 6 closet. (maybe 7) James couldnt find the pursers desk or the pool and Dan was met with stares when he asked about the captains champagne reception. But we did see that the pope rode on the boat once with a big picture of him in the dining hall. I dont think he had our room. We made the best of it and slept and didnt sink. Yes!

John drove today to get off the dock and it was like driving through New York on speed. There are pretty much no traffic laws at all, park where ever you want, and mopeds pass on both sides at the same time. After we got out of the city it was about 3 1/2 hours to the camp ground. Including a stop in a town called Angri (ANGRY). It was trash and concerned us. Jon locked the doors. And we put our heads down and powered through.

When we arrived the bungalow was quaint but bigger than our room on the ferry. YES! Now it is raining like mad and we are at an internet cafe. Next we find a place to eat...

Thanks again for the responses, it helps us forget about the rain.

Burrows here!
First, I must confess Ryan was, at the least, being modest about the speedo pictures. In actuality, it was Ryan & I standing on the rock mass in our new choice of swimwear. Turns out Steve lent the 70’s apparel to us upon hearing his brothers were in need. Once in our getup, Dan & John brought us to the rock by boat, took our picture & brought us back to shore.
Service is going quite well in our new territory; its amazing how effective you can be in your sleep. As you saw from the service report Chris turned in for me, I have been very regular.
As was mentioned earlier we left our beach house early and headed to Dubrovnik. We entered into the old city walls and were conned into eating more seafood (which most of us have now sworn off for a while.) After lunch we walked around for a while and quickly realized we were in a medieval Disney. All the buildings are made of solid stone with cobblestone walkways. While walking through the city we saw a guy that resembled Don King. In fact, it was Don--the boxing promoter with the loud mouth and crazy white hair. The only fights in town seemed to be between three pigeons fighting over an apple. Don was surrounded by five men in suits but was gladly taking pictures with the tourists. He kept yelling welcome to Dubrovnik.
We finally left for Cavtat and commandeered a dock with some chairs making up for some of our lost beach days. After lying in the sun we found a sandwich café that served cocktails--which brings me to the RETURN TO THE CAPTAIN. Finally Captain Morgan made an appearance, in haste Ryan and I ordered.
On a side note Dan is out of Metamucil. That’s all for now; see you in Italy.

Today was great! We woke up late expecting rain but instead it was a little cloudy with mostly sun. It was a sunder shower. (as Albert says on the radio)We went down to town and rented a small boat with an even smaller engine. Either way we knew it would get us out to the water and the islands. Jon drove for a while. We found a closed camp ground with no one there. We moved on to another island that had a restaurant on it. Lunch was good but the girl informed us it was tricky since they don’t have power on it.
After that I drove for a bit and we realized that our boat was underrated for big waters. Dan was content reading a book lying in the front of the boat while James, Jon, and I were yelling every time it looked that a wave might go over into the boat. We were nervous so we quickly stopped at an island till the waters calmed from the big cruise boats.
It was a nice surprise to find that there was a hidden cove with chairs for us to sit in and enjoy the sun. It was a whole island to ourselves! After a few hours we made our way back to HVAR. We quickly realized AGAIN that our boat was still too small for the big waves (and that the anchor broke off the last time we stopped). We basically were screaming the whole way back thinking that we might go under but we didn’t. We just got really wet from all the big waves splashing us and then we went home and cleaned up.
We are now at a restaurant and we order 3 pizzas’ (Mexican, 4 cheese, & Prosciutto). I am typing on the laptop while we wait. I will post this ASAP. Tonight we might eat ice cream. Yum Yum…