we made it!!!! wooo!!! we met up with kira and headed to her moms house and had the most amazing meal and LAUGHED a lot. it is so great to be here...we might not leave! im going to try and post some pictures maybe...and possibly try and rescue the other ones!! fingers crossed! verona was beautiful yesterday, we walked a lot, found a great farmers market with lots of free samples (woo!) and hung out in a cafe for about 2.5 hours trying to plan our last weeks! we are going to do florence, orvieto, rome, possibly capri, then nice, barcelona, southern spain then algarve. exciting, but going by way too fast! we might go to a christmas market today in riva del garda, where kiras mom lives, and then a free concert so hopefully we can get our butts in gear and head there. we all slept late today and it was great! we need that every once and a while. going to go try and rescue pictures...we got the card reader at a great little camera store in bologna and the guy sent us to his friends restaurant to eat lunch where we proceeded to once again eat ourselves into a food coma. but it was SO good, lasagna bolognese, soup, homemade desserts, warm bread....mmm....