For a minute there I thought I was going to lose my faith. But if last night was anything to go by, it's now restored in full. As different as we'll always be, German's aren't bad at all - though they did have me worried for a while. Some of them do smile. In fact some of them laugh heartily. And some of them are incredibly friendly, extremely h...

Frankfurt was interesting....we passed along in the airport while they smoked inside....ugh. Customs was easy. The guy didn't even look up while he stamped our passports. We made our plane with just a few minutes to spare. However once on the plane, it was nicely almost empty!!! Landed in Rome and transferred to our hotel. We were dead exhausted...

Well the day started with the usual Temp , 0-3 Degrees C .

Jason and I breezed through customs, but the customs guy spent an awfully long time glimpsing back and forth between Mom and her passport picture. Finally, to assure him that the person in the photo was indeed her, she finally said, "I've gotten a haircut since then, don't worry, it really is me." This seemed good enough for him because he final...