oh holy night

So! Morgan was here for three weeks! It was awesome. We spent the first week hanging aroudn Dinan, seeing what sights there were to see here, as well as makign a trip to the Mont St.Michel. One of the sights to see here included the Christmas house, the place where Christmas lives, I think. It was a house that belonged in a fairy tale, adn for me, the tea and cake that we had in that house were my Christmas.

Then we went to Rome! But first we spent two days in Beauvais, waiting for our flight. Funny thing, Beauvais. Its listed as an airport in Paris, but in fact, its nowhere near paris. Or, I supposed its NEAR Paris, buts its certainly its own town! Anyway, I was expecting a boringi little place, but it turned out to be lovely! In fact, our second favourite church of the trip was the Basilica in Beauvais. The first favourite being, of course, St. Peter's, but that shouldnt even count as being in the same category as any other church, in my opinion. Anyway, we spent a lovely day in Beauvais, relaxing, playing hte tourist a bit. I bought a french-italian converstaion guide. haha. And we were both feelign creative so we bought sketchbooks and paints and pastels. another haha.

Rome, in short, was amazing. We saw, I think, just about all the major sights, discovered some great thigns, saw some great sights, ate some great chinese food. That's right, I said Chinese food. our favourite resaurant in Rome, by far, was this amazing Chinese place that served the most delicious pineapple rice....

My favourte parts were just about all in Vatican City. St.Peters.... its an inspiring, breathtaking place. Sistine Chapel - same thing. the square itself - wow. We also really liked this park we found, the Villa Borghese. But that was mostly because by then we were kind of sick of the city life and we liked getting away from teh crowds!

We made it to midnight mass with the pope. we made inside, actually, even thought we were supposed to have tickets to be there. We found the Colosseum to be smaller than expected, and I found, in general, that things were overpriced for what you got. But it was a remarkable city, and a remarkable trip. We met some nice people, at our regular phone and internet place, at the gas station pizza place next to the hostel with the amazingly good pizza, in the villa borghese (best way to make friends quick, getting naked?)...

I've uploaded more photos, as usual, so check out the flickr site if you like! i tried to organize them, but it didnt work, so its a bit of a mess. but anyway, they are there!