Our first visitors (our grandparents) have come and we had quite a fun time with them as we lead them around our new (temporarily permanent) home. They first flew in and were exhausted from the flight so we ordered in some fresh Napoli pizza as their first experience. The next morning, we were all energised and ready to go! To warm up and soak in all of the surroundings, we took the grandparents for a walk around town and looked at the pastry stores, the clothing market, the fruit market and eventually bought some pastries to take back to the apartment. After we ate those, it was riposo (nap time) so we put on some Psych on the TV and let them snore part of the day away.
A few days of this and we were finally all energised enough to go on a real trip! Off to Herculaneum, the smaller, more intact ruins than Pompeii (in my opinion better than Pompeii). Pepa (what we call my grandpa) was very excited to begin his adventures, but Grandma wasn't all that enthusiastic and preferred to wait in the main building until we came back. The ruins were quite beautiful despite the damage, there was a lot more art on the walls and floors too. My favorite parts of the city were the small little restaurants and kitchens with the counters and the pots built in it (of which it had little pummus stones that hailed into the city during the eruption). Pepa, Race, Mom and I enjoyed it very much, so when it was time to go back up to Grandma, we got to show her pictures and tell her all about it.
The next trip we got after a few days of napping and watching tv, was Roma. We knew that the grandparents couldn't take all of the walking there in Rome (since there is lots to see) so we bought tickets for the sight-seeing bus. It was quite cold outside, but we took the roof seats anyway for a better view of the Colosseum and all those amazing ruins. Our grandparents may have come here exhausted, but I think they left contented, happy, and most definitely done with over-seas travelling!
