Rome if you want to

Dear followers,
I am so very sorry for the delay in blog posting but seeing how we are on land and not at sea it is full out amazing race style. My teammate, John. So to track back across the balearic sea to Barcelona. We spent our last two days hiking and seeing all we could afford our feet to carry us to. I'm sorry to inform you all that we never made it to beach so no fun details from that cultural experience of clothing optional. We got on the ship early because I, Malorie, had to go to an faculty directed program for my abnormal psych class. The lecture was by a women from doctors without borders. Very fascinating. Then after leaving a little late due to fueling we were on our way to the green, white and red or in short Italy. We had one day on sea before arriving early yesterday morning to Civitavecchia, or however you spell it. You can google it yourself if you really find the need but as we were told by the ship, it is a small fishing town, just go to rome. So what did John and I do? We went to Rome. As some of you might know john's parents and brother and sister-in- law are all in Rome. So we did amazing race style to find the train station off the port got a train ticket and made it on just as the doors were closing. The for the eighty minute train ride we were wondering a) if we were on the right train and b) if we would make it to the hotel on time. The rush to a hotel was because there was a tour set up for the Booren family to go to the major sights around the city. It would have been nearly impossible to find tha hotel, drop our bags and go find the family where ever they maybe in this large, crazy city. We know it is summer and tourism is more popular now but you really cannot imagine the amount of people swarming the city. So we made it and were off to see the city, the wonderful city of Oz (not really). If you want long version of the sights email me and I would be happy to fill you on but for simplicity sake we will move on.
So after that we went back to the hotel for a short brake and went out to a beautiful traditional Italian dinner! Then off to bed. We woke up early to head to the Vatican. I must add we are getting better at handling the people cause Italians are very much a different breed. So our tour guy was this oh so cute, charming, brilliant 24 year old walking encyclopedia as they call him. Just to show how much I liked him, he was from ireland and is working oh his doctorate in art history, so we really couldn't ask for anyone better, oh he was amazing! So he gave us amazing stories and details of everything! Ok well not everything since they say if you spent just 60 second at each piece of artwork it would take you 27 years to complete. So WOW overload of really old stuff! The Popes get what they want! So we bopped in and out the swarms of people and finally arrived and the Sistine Chapel. Incredible!!! Then off to St. Peter's and words cannot describe the, the, massiveness? The extravagant detail? Absolutely incredible!
Well to finish this up we are leaving tomorrow morning and it is time to sleep. Please email me if you have any questions or want any more detail, I love details! At malmang@Rams.colostate.edu
Thanks for reading! Sorry for the delay!
Love always,

John and Mally

Oh and very special thanks to Steven and Marie because without them we would be lost in Rome!