Sorry about that last post.  I got cut short because my time ran out at the hotel computer.  I haven´t had a chance to tell you all about Arco, Italy yet so I think I will start there.  I think Arco is my new favorite place in the whole world.  It was absolutely beautiful.  We picked up our little 2 door rental car (a Lancia Ypsilon) in Verona after a short train ride from Venice and drove through a crazy valley filled with vinyards and surrounded by dramatic huge mountains.  We stayed at an agriturisimo here and it was awesome.  We had a little kitchen and a great little balcony with an amazing view.  It was nice to take a break from eating out and make some food of our own.  The place we were staying even had some fruiting cherry trees out front so we took full advantage of that.  We spent a good chunk of our time climbing or trying to climb.  Finding a good crag proved to be harder than we expected, but we managed in the end.  Adam even fought a chain fence with the car and ended up winning with a little damage to the fence.  We drove away from that one pretty quick.  As quick as we could on the crazy narrow roads that is. The last day we were there was the craziest stormy weather.  It rained and hailed with spots of sun and then wind and rain and hail again.  it was fun to watch but cut short some of our climbing time.  (but adam did still drag me to a cave in the pouring rain so he could climb some of the steep and dry routes) 
    We are now in Mallorca after the crazy day of traveling I think I mentioned in the last post.  It is quite nice here.  The mix of people is pretty interesting though.  It seems to be a place for the old and retired and their families.  Not many people here our age.  We climbed here yesterday and today and had a little bit of beach time yesterday.  Apparently this beach is a topless beach, so that was a little uncomfrotable at first.  We saw lots of boobies, I kept mine in my bathing suit.  Today was pretty neat.  Adam got to deep water solo and I got to hang out on a beautiful beach and take some really cool pictures of him.  (deep water soloing is climbing without a rope over, you guessed it, deep water)  We forgot the camera today, but I promise the next post I will put up some pictures.  It rained for most of the afternoon today so we are doing the boring stuff like laundry and updating the blog.  Tomorrow another adventure!

Hey there.  Sorry it´s been so long since our last post.  It was just too much fun in Arco to tak time to find an internet cafe.  I only have 3 minutes left on the computer I´m using right now so this will have to be a short one too.  We just arrived in Mallorca yesterday evening after a long and stressful day of driving across Italy, delayed flights and nearly missed connections and crazy island driving.  In the end we found our hotel and we are still married.

Venezia

Well folks we are now in Venice and it is so great.  We are enjoying our time here more than we did in Rome.  It is much more quiet and it is fun to get lost in all the back alley's.  We went to St. Mark's square today but decided to save our money for the Peggy Guggenheim collection and the Frari church.  the Frari Church was my favorite so far this trip and the Guggenheim was also amazing.  Lots of great art.  Here are some pictures for you all.

The train ride from Rome to Venice was really pretty

aren't we cute

on top of the rialto bridge

venice is nice

Roma

Ciao!  We made it to Rome safely everyone.  This city is crazy!  Today we saw the coluseum, the Pantheon, a hand full of churches, the Trevi Fountain and a few other things I'm not sure how to spell at the moment.  The churches were absolutely amazing.  I wasn't disappointed by a single thing that we stumbled upon today.  It's crazy how much there is to see here.  You could spend months here and not see all the history in this crazy city.  I finally figured out how to get some pictures on here so here are a few from Barcelona and Rome.

La Sagrada Familia

inside sagrada familia

church in rome

inside the coloseum

It's taking way too long to load the photos so this is all you get for now.  I promise I will post more in Venice.  Tomorrow we will go to the Vatican Museum and Sistine chapel.  Loves.

Barcelona!

Hola!  Well we made it safely to Barcelona.  What a beautiful city.  Unfortunately I can´t post any pictures with this computer situation but here is a list of the things we saw while here.  La Sagrada Familia, Parc Guell, The Picasso Museum and we took a nice stroll down La Rambla.  I don´t want to spend the rest of my day at the computer so that is all I have to say for now.  I will try to post some pictures in Rome.  We fly out tomorrow!  Love you all!

Adam Graduated!

Today Adam had his graduation ceremony today.  It was really nice to see him walk and made me feel like a proud parent or something.  :)  We are leaving for our big trip on Monday!  I can't believe it came so fast.  I was a nervous wreck the past few days, but I am starting to calm down now.  Nervousness is just my nature I guess.  Here are some pics from graduation today.

What a good day :)

Planning the trip

So I fell in the river yesterday :) But that's beside the point.  We have been planning our honeymoon to Spain and Italy for the past few months now and the date of departure is finally closing in.  We will be departing from the country on May 16th at 11:15am from DIA.  We will have one stop off in Philly and then it's on to Barcelona.  I am a little nervous about the whole thing to be honest.  It's my first time really leaving the country and we will be gone for almost a whole month.  At least we are going to Europe and not some third world country for my first trip out of the states.  We would like this blog to be a journal for all to follow us on our whirlwind adventure.  So to get started with things here is our itinerary:
We will be flying into Barcelona and stay there for 3 days and then fly to Rome for 3 more days.  From Rome we will be taking a first class train to Venice (I am most excited for this one).  From Venice we will take a train to Verona and then driving to Arco, Italy for some world class shport shpanking (I mean climbing).  We will then be flying to Palma de Majorca.  A small island off the coast of Spain where we will be staying for 9 whole days and embarking on some more climbing adventures.  From there we will head back to Barcelona to catch our flight back to the U.S. of A.  Should be quite amazing.  We even bought a new camera to document the journey more thoroughly.  If you wish to follow us on our trip, this is the place to do it.  I will update as often as I can find a computer with internet that doesn't cost 10 euros.  Love you all.  We'll keep you posted.