italy's lovely

just back from the most lovely vacation ever. traveled with my mom, dad, grandma, great-aunt jo, uncle pete, aunt anna, and cousins laura, brian & kelly to italy for 2 weeks. spent a week living in an apartment in rome, then flew to sicily and spent five days in the little seaside village where my grandmother grew up. tons of religious art and gorgeous light and laughing with cousins and learning the language and drinking with the locals and shopping and eating and i took so many photographs. i met a hundred italian cousins and ate enough pasta to kill a horse. i swam in the mediterranean. it was brilliant and amazing. i'm still kinda stuck on italy time.