Italy! Finally!

We're off to San Francisco tomorrow morning and because I hate to leave on another trip without posting about Italy, here are our photos from our big Italy trip.  Laura and I are behind the camera so much that it almost looks like Jay and Stephen went by themselves but I promise we were there, too!  I'll do a more detailed post later but wanted to get these pictures out since so many of you have been asking for them.  They are in chronological order, starting in the Jacksonville Airport, then Atlanta, then in the Venice airport.  From Venice, we drove east to Aquilea and then to Trieste on the Adriatic Sea.  We spent our first night in Aquilea with Laura's friend Glenda and her family. From there, we went back to Venice, where we spent one night at a hotel.  We had rooms looking out over the Grand Canal.  From Venice, we traveled by train to Florence.  We were in Florence at the Torre Guelfa (with fabulous roof-top views of the city) for one night.  We rented a car (a Volvo wagon, how European!) in Florence and drove to Tuscany.  We stayed at the Villa Rosa for two nights.  We enjoyed our tour of the beautiful Tuscan countryside.  Then we drove back to Florence, dropped off the car, and took the train from Florence to Rome.  We spent our last two nights in Rome (my favorite part of the trip) and flew home from there.