My uncle Ross and aunt Teresa visited me last weekend! The first of few visitors who are coming from home. Ross and Teresa were unexpected and it was such a great surprise! I got a message two days before they were here...saying "by the way, were going to be in Rome where would you like to meet?" nice! I loved seeing them and hearing their unfortunate events of driving in Naples and getting gas. They treated me to lunch near the Pantheon on Sunday where we sat and chatted forever! I think our waiter came back 5 times to see if we were ready to order and we hadn't even cracked open the menu.

After lunch, we went into the pantheon with the millions of other people who also

had the same idea. We took a few pictures and hanging out with Ross and Teresa was great entertainment. My favorite moment of hanging out with them was when we were by Raphael's tomb (the famous painter) which was in the Pantheon and there was a statue of a head above his tomb.

After Teresa read the sign, she told Ross and I that 100 years after Raphael died, they opened the tomb to see if his body was really inside, which it was, and the statue is a replica of what he looked like. Ross then says...."Oh, so he was black?" haha!! so much fun.

My roommate Alyssa and I were bored tonight so we decided to get our workout on. We popped in Gaby's pilates DVD on my computer, laid down a large comforter in our room and lasted about 20 min. We then treated ourselves to Nutella and Banana crepes..so much for the workout! Not to mention the crepes had a whole jar of nutella on it....and it was extremely sweet..alyssa couldn't even finish hers (hers had caramel on it also). Nothing can top those nutella/banana crepes we had in isla mujeres! mmmmm!!

Maggie with her nutella banana crepe

one more day til Bridget, Patti and Tay are here!

ciao ciao.