Itinerary

Here's my attempt at posting our itinerary. I apologize if the formatting is off on your computer. It looks great on mine!

2014 Italy and Greece Itinerary

Mon	Tues	Wed	Thurs	Fri	Sat	Sun
		July 2 6:10pm Fly out of JFK with Sarah	July 3 Arrive in Milan	July 4 Milan	July 5 Day trip to Venice	July 6 Train to Lucca
July 7 Class starts	July 8	July 9	July 10	July 11	July 12	July 13
July 14	July 15	July 16	July 17	July 18 Class ends	July 19 Leave Lucca, Meet Brad in Florence	July 20 Florence
July 21 Sarah flies home Train to Cinque Terre	July 22 Cinque Terre	July 23 train to Rome	July 24 Rome	July 25 Train to Aversa	July 26 Aversa	July 27 Aversa
July 28 11:20 am: Fly to Athens	July 29 Athens Overnight ferry to Crete	July 30 6 AM: arrive in Crete	July 31 Crete	Aug 1 Crete	Aug 2 Crete	Aug 3 Ferry to Santorini
Aug 4 Santorini	Aug 5 Santorini	Aug 6 11:20am: take off 8:10pm: Arrive Newark

Uno settimana

Ahh just one week! So much is going on right now, with the school year coming to a close (the kids' last day is today), moving out of my house in Saratoga this weekend, and then making final preparations for this trip.  While we're leaving it fairly flexible as to what we do when we're there, all the logistical information (accommodations, travel info) is set and I need to compile all that information, print all the tickets, etc. There are a lot of components to this adventure - for me, there are four separate flights, six long-distance train rides, and nine (I think) different places I'll be staying. Sarah and Brad are each going to be with me for 18 days, with one day of overlap in the middle in Florence. I will post our day-by-day itinerary shortly.  I was remembering the last time I blogged, with my doubles partner, Kristin (a 2012 Olympian!) for our U23 Worlds adventure. Tomorrow will mark exactly 6 years since we were named to the U23 team. It doesn't seem like that long ago, but at the same time, so much of life has happened since then. Rereading our posts from 2008, I can remember exactly how I felt writing them and I'm hoping writing this blog will do the same. Hopefully you will enjoy following along as well! Sarah and Brad will also be contributing (they might not know this yet, though), so there will be a variety of narrators. More soon!

Attempt at posting a picture

Here is my attempt at posting a photo...thanks to Andrea Caiano in the Boght Hills computer lab for her assistance! This is Brad and me after our mixed doubles rowing victory at Head of the Fish last fall.

...and here is a lovely photo of Sarah and me taken just a couple weeks ago at an Italian restaurant in the North End of Boston (photo credit goes to Lauren). Next time we're out to dinner will be at an Italian restaurant in Italy! (But they probably just call it a restaurant there).

Three Weeks from Now...

Three weeks from this very moment Sarah and I will be, assuming all things go according to plan, on a Swiss Air jet headed toward Italy for one heck of a summer adventure. To say we are excited is an understatement. More to come soon...