Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Return to Rome


April 27
I return to Rome via ferry, bus, train and metro. Go out to dinner near Piazza del Popolo with my sister and her family, my parents, and the English couple and their family. I love walking this area of Rome, the visuals of the statues, architecture, and tall, old trees, and feeling its history. I have been to Italy many times, and I always wish I could stay longer. I could imagine living here.
April 28
After packing, exercising at my sisters Gym, I meet my parents and my sister and her husband at their favorite restaurant in Borghese Park overlooking the Rome skyline for another delicious meal. I offer to clean and organize my nieces bedroom, and after spending an hour with my sister doing that it looks great. I cook vegetables for everyone (Alan cooks chicken parmisian, my fathers favorite). My parents leave for Paris tommorrow, and I leave for Miami, so we take the leftovers for our plane rides tommorrow.
I miss my children very much and feel sad that I can not hug them. I look forward to my son David picking me up from the airport tommorrow and taking me out to dinner. I try to figure out how I can see Ashley and Max, but due to their and my schedule, I probably wont see Ashley until July, and Max until October.
Max is now planing to have his wedding in Israel, on Jan 1, his birthday. His empoyer has made him an offer he can't refuse so he will be moving Sept 1 to London. David is continuing with his redo of his condo, and his girlfriend is moving from Los Vegas to move in with him in June. Ashley was accepted and is transfering to the University of Michigan. I had asked her to join me on my trip to China, but she wants to spend as much of her summer as posible with her boyfriend, who will stay at the University of Colorado in the engineering school. She is also taking him to Israel for 2 weeks, where my son Max will take care of them.
I have much to do in the next 3 days before I leave for China.

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