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Italy (Day 3)

 Guys, this is hard, remembering all the things.  I just had to ask Kevin and Marz what we did on certain days.  There was SO MUCH.  I think I got it.  On Monday morning, Kevin and I went to our trusty Gluten Free Bakery and got pastries for the brood.  People ate and then we ventured out for our tattoos.  Grandma and Nana, please skip ahead to after tattoo pics if necessary.  ;)  I had made reservations for all of us to get tattoos.  The shop owner and I communicated over messenger, and he assured me that he would have a full staff including this one girl that K'lyn wanted her tat from.  We walked in to a full staff of happy people!

The vibe was very relaxed, and we launched into who was getting what.  They assigned people to everyone.  I went with Marz since she fainted at her last tat.  Rory decided she wanted the same person as K'lyn, so that took FOREVER.  They're used to an artist that goes a lot faster than this italian girl so...  

The shop owner did Kevin's tat.  They became fast friends.  We had to hang out a while since K'lyn and Rory took a while.  Our payment didn't go through, so Kevin and I ended up leaving and trying ATMs and such.  It was a money mess.  Once we got it figured out, Rory and K'lyn still weren't done, and Marz and Logan wanted to just stay at the tattoo shop.  Kevin and I took off by ourselves.  We ended up just wandering and trying to figure out where to go for our Vatican Museum tickets.  We had 4p tickets, so we had to try and find the line.

By the time we got back, we waited for K'lyn to finish.  We heard stories of Logan falling asleep and the shop people giving him an espresso which he babysat instead of just downing.  He learned his lesson since it tasted pretty bad.  Oh, I forgot that we went out with Marz and Logan first and had Macdonald's.  I know.  We're the only family I know that goes on vacation just to eat fastfood we have at home.  Anyway, public restrooms are not free in Italy, so people were having to scan their receipt or code off the receipt to get through the glass doors to go to the bathroom.  The whole restaurant was PACKED.  It was crazy.

Everyone finally finished, and we headed off to the Vatican Museums.  My friend had told me that there's a lot to see on the way to the Sistine Chapel.  That along with info that you should go later in the day meant that our time slot to see all the things was 4-6p.  My main focus was getting to the Sistine Chapel to see the famous The Creation of Adam painting.  This meant hurrying through all the cool things to see.  I didn't want to get to the Sistine Chapel and it close.  The kids and Kevin were upset at this, so I got to hear about it later.  

We walked a bit to the entrance way for the museums and saw a line of people thinking they were just in line to get in.  We had time stamped tickets and weren't supposed to have to wait in line.  This led us across the street to get some gelato.  I think we all agreed this wasn't the best gelato except for Kevin.  He liked this one the best because it was coffee gelato.

Our kids here look like an Abercrombie ad one of them said.

We got back to where the guy had told us to come back later since our tickets were at 4p, and the guy told us to get in line.  The line was humongous and ridiculous.  I guess everyone thought what we thought.  We bought these tickets so we wouldn't have to wait in line, and here we are waiting in line.  Anyway we eventually got in.

Drumroll please....

That's it, folks.  There in the middle, turn your puter sideways.  It was a smallish square surrounded by other smallish squares.  We were expecting it to be the whole ceiling.  Nope.  There was so much more than this, but I'm not going to post ALL.THE.THINGS.

After the Sistine Chapel "run through,"  we had the host from our AirBNB make a dinner reservation for us.  He even got us a free appetizer, herb focaccia.  We ordered a bottle of white and a bottle of red.  The kids got some dishes to share.  The food wasn't bad.  We figured out that Rory gets more paranoid the more she drinks, and Logan gets liquidy.  I think there was a conversation on the way home from this place that Logan said, "I don't really feel anything.  I feel liquidy."  HAHAHA!  Anyway, we were loud Americans at this restaurant.  The kids didn't eat everything, so the waitress came up and said, "What happened?!" pointing to the food.  It wasn't rude, but it wasn't joking either.  Apparently it's rude not to finish your food.  We said we wanted the rest for take-away, and she seemed truly offended.  She told another waiter to pack things up, and he passive-agressively packed things up.  The walk home was nerve-racking considering the only sober ones were me and Marz.  Kevin was on "helping Logan walk duty" and K'lyn and Rory teamed up.  Marz and I were exit buddies, so we brought up the rear to make sure they all got where they needed to go.

If you ask Kevin about his food, he'll tell you that his meat was maybe walked through a warm room before it landed on his plate (RARE), and the cheesecake was delicious.  Apparently in Italy the cheesecake is light and fluffy, not solid and dense.  Logan liked it too and even opted for it one of the desserts, but I don't think this one.  K'lyn, Logan, and I got our standard tiramisu.  That's the end of Day 3.

Italy (Day 1&2) Forgotten Pics!

 I must have been really tired when blogging last night because I missed so many pics.  I was just sitting down to collect pics for days 3&4 when I noticed missed pictures from days 1&2.  My apologies.  I'll post the pics here and then work on the next blog.  Sorry about that!

Most of these pics were taken by Rory.  That's why she's not in any of them. :(  These are more from the restaurant.

More exploring...

More mall...

K'lyn came out of her room one night to me and Kevin in the living room with a video she had made of our day.  She used CapCut on her phone.  It's so app or program, but she created a monster because we wanted one every day from then on.  It's so cool!

Until tomorrow! (hopefully)