Trying to catch up…

The month of November has been crazy!  I have spent a lot of time traveling around, and a lot of time trying to catch up on projects because of that.  I did not have a chance to post pictures from our North trip and Ireland yet, that hasn’t been to high on the to-do list right now.  

Ireland was really fun though. We got there kind of late that friday night since flight left about 40 min late. The weather was good and it was a nice change of pace and scenery.  One of the girls we were with had a connection through a friend so when we got there go took us out to a popular Irish pub and the next day drove us all over so we wouldn’t have to take a taxi.  He showed us his college campus and then just walked us around town all day showing us what he thought we should see.  One of the neighborhoods we drove though reminded me of Des Moines a lot.  It was also really nice to see and hear english all over the place.  Some people had a really heavy accent so it was really hard to understand them, but english is english.  After that weekend I had 2 weeks in Rome to hang out here and try to get as much work done as possible.  It was nice to be in town for a weekend finally and be able to take it easy.  During that time I found out one of my friends from back home was going to be able to come over and visit.  Jon got here on the 21st and will be here until Dec. 2 so that whole week and a half will fly by also.  He is almost over the jet lag then he will be able to keep up much better.  A bunch of us went to the open market this morning, that was a crazy experience our first time and we had been here a month, I can’t imagine what it seemed like 3 days into a trip. We plan to go to the Colosseum and the Sistine Chapel this week among other sight seeing, I have been here for 84 days and have seen the Colosseum at least twice everyday and still haven’t been inside. I think it’s about time.  We have a couple extra days off for Thanksgiving this week so I think we are going to head to Siena for a couple days and check that out and I want to go up to Pisa for a couple hours to check out the leaning tower.  When we get back from that and Jon leaves I think I will be living in the studio almost 24/7.  All of our projects are due Dec. 10 and I have quite the to do list to tackle before that point.  I will have to do a complete November update when all of that is taken care us to get you all updated.  Yesterday marked the 30 day countdown so we are on the final stretch, only a few weeks left.