What a day! It is currently 3am Italy time and we were up at 4:30am!
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Nashville!
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Florence Day two- David and Fiesole
Friday, April 1, 2011
Florence
We climbed 463 stairs inside the San Maria Di Fiore (or The Dome - Duomo) and had a complete view of all of Florence - pretty amazing! Afterwards, we did a lot of walking to various places around Florence. It was also discovered that Baylor has eaten over 50 flavors of Gelato since his arrival in Italy...I'm still amazed by this recent discovery!
Everyone is exhausted now and taking a quick nap before we head out to dinner around the corner. Italy has been an amazing adventure so far!
Ciao!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Venice and another day of travel
Saints Marks is amazing! Our tour guide was much better than our Rome guide, and everyone enjoyed him more. We got the full tour of the Ducal Palace, and we were shutting the place down since we were so late.
On the way home, we set a home base and sent the kids off in groups (to return in 90 minutes). It went smoothly and we enjoyed another group dinner. Most folks stayed in the hotel (Schaffers went out wandering- learning the vaporetto system and paths). Then another late night of cards at the hotel!
Thursday was generally a free day, with the students in groups and wandering Venice. Everyone hopefully will share their own stories!
Friday morning came early to make our train. A vaporetto strike made it interesting, but we are at the train station waiting for our track!
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Tuesday!
This led to a late morning, with most people barely making it to breakfast by 10am. We finally got ready for the day and I figured out the bus system enough to get us close to Piazza Navona for a couple hours of browsing and lunch.
From there we wandered west across the river to the Vatican City and met our tour guide. The tour, complete with the Museum, tons of tapestries, statues, ceilings, and other artwork also included the Sistine Chapel and Saint Peters Basilica. The excitement of the day was definitely Baylor getting lost! He stepped aside to take a picture, rushed to catch up and sailed right on by the group, all the way down into the Sistine Chapel. We realized he was missing almost immediately, but he was long gone in his attempt to find us! He even heard our tour guide talking to him over the headset but had no way to respond. Eventually, a Vatican guide put word out for a missing tourist and Baylor was relieved when a guide walked up to him in the Chapel and said "what is your name?" then herded him back to our crew.
We were all fading fast by the end, and were relieved when it was time to head back to the hotel by bus. The bus filled up super quick ending with Samantha on Emily's lap and Baylor taking a snooze on Kaleb.
Now we are back on the town for dinner and festivities!
Monday, March 28, 2011
Monday morning
Now we are walking in the direction of our bike tour, looking for lunch on the way!
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Rome! Day one
Saturday, March 26, 2011
We have landed!
On to Rome!
One flight down!
On the plane!
Departure day
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
The Webb School goes to Italy!
Born from a simple "hmm, what would be a fun trip?" and developing into a full-fledged school trip, this spring break trip will be an absolute blast.
More details and updates to follow!