Italy: Day 20 - Home

Up early: Jenn drove us to the Napoli airport. It was still dark when she dropped us off. We got in line - and it moved very slowly. We were wondering if we were going to miss our flight. Interesting - Napoli has about 12 flights that leave within 10 minutes of each other. Most of the people boarding need to stand in the same line. Well - we finally made it to the counter and they processed us without asking why we were so late to our flight (as one might expect if one were flying domestically in the US). We still had time to get through security and stand in line for our flight. We flew through Milan, then Atlanta without any problems. I was expecting to have a difficult connection through Atlanta (I have had problems making connections after an international flight here before). To my great surprise - there were only a few flights arriving Atlanta when we were there. Needless to say - we were pretty wiped when we finally made it home. Here is a picture of some of the things that we brought back:

It was good to be home - but we had a wonderful time - time with friends that we will never forget!

Italy: Day 19 - Time with Friends

I went to the market in Jenn's small town. What an experience. It appears that you can buy most everything for your house + a lot of clothes at the weekly market. I enjoyed our time there.
Peter and I worked out on base. My goal was to run every day during vacation. After my experience in Florence - I reconsidered - also - it was vacation. I did not get out of bed early enough to go most mornings!

Packed and prepared to leave early in the morning.

Italy: Day 19 - Maintenance Day

We are nearing the end of our vacation and are reaching that point in all vacations that you just want to be restful. Today - I fixed Peter and Jennifer's printer so that they can now actually print from their new Macintosh computer. I worked on all of the bikes that they had in the garage - I think I pumped up 10 tires. Rain today - I snapped a few pictures from the upstairs windows:
Construction in Italy is very different than we have here. While they were not working on this house in the rain - they worked many of the other days that were there - including Sundays. Construction starts with the 3 floors and the roof. They then build interior walls. There is no wood used in the construction process at all.
This house has the roof and the exterior and interior walls in place. This job site was not active while we were there.