Roma mercoledi 4/2/08

Woke up to anothew bootiful day..
I love how you can fling Oowopean windows wide open

Thewe awe Shuttews on the outside..you fiwast open those..then thewe awe two sets of windows wif about fouw inches of space in between..so it's weally quiet at night, and bootiful when you open it all upUp on the tewwace fow bweakfast..yummm..fwesh aiw, and wawm sun on ouw backs

waiting fow the hot milk and espwesso and cownetti(like cwoissants..only even bettew!)

this is a little fountain on the woof top deck

wight next to us is a chuwch and we can heaw the pwetty bells

we went down to see what it looks like..
this is the couwtyawd of the chuwch..
just look at those faboolous columns and colows..Mommi was getting all inspiwed
all ovew the wall thewew awe tablets set in..they awe vewy, vewy old(oldew than even my pawents)
I peeked into the chuwch..it's all silent and peaceful, and I love the way the light comes in

then Daddi and I scoped out the cownew flowew stand(we had a plan fow the fifth)

Well Ciao little cane


we checked each othew out

I told him all about NY..he was amazed

This is a covewed gallewia..thewe awe shops and places to have coffee and snackses..it's awound the cownew fwom us on the Via del Cowso
We poked ouw noses in evewy couwtyawd...thewe's something bootiful awound evewy cownew
we wound up on the Piazza diSpagna...this was just fifteen minutes walk fwom ouw hotel..it's vewy famous ,and bootiful, but I pwefew places wif less touwists(I knowI'm one too, but I want to heaw Italian, not English when I'm in Wome)...so we quickly left fow less twaveled stweets

These little kiosks sell papews and magzazines, and postcawds and stuff

Thewe were lots of cyclamen in tubs evewywhewe..they must like Woman climate Mommi said
We went to see the Chiesa Del Gesu ..it's one of the pwettiest chuwches..but Daddi and I stayed outside and just wested and talked while Mommi went in..she lit candles fow all my fuwwfwiends who awe sick ow lost and I suwe hope someone is listening to my pwayews.

They suwe have lots of mawble in Wome...can you believe those colows???

It was time fow lunch again(we ate all the time!!!!)

I waited patiently fow a table

finally I could west my paws...I walked about 6-7 houws a day...Mommi and Daddi shawed theiw lunch wif me(I ate avewything, and nevew had Di -Wea.ow fwow up ow anything..I think my tummy likes italian food)

mowe walking, heheheh..I love all the balconies and flowews and stuff

finally ..my favowite time of day...GELATO TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was ouw favowite Gelato place..it's called Giolitti's...we had about thwee diffewent flavows evewy day...today..it was fwagola, champagne, and nocce( stwawbewwy, champagne and walmut)...as you can see..Mommi is as much in love wif Gelato as I am
While thewe I had a nice talk wif a little cutie dachshund..I asked if he knew Lorenza, but he didn't..his loss


slowly we wound ouw way home......latew , aftew a nap we went out again...but I have no mowe pictoowes fwom that daytomowwow , you'll see my picttowes fwom my twip to Bologna and Ravenna..whewe I went to meet my Cat fwiends Opus and Roscoe, and theiw pawents..oh and to see some mosaics too

Wome ...martedi 4/1/08

I'm going to show you my whole twip ovew the next sevewal days..
it will take a long time, so I hope you don;t get sick of looking at my pictoowes..I missed you all and wished that you could have been wif me!!

This is the beginning of my twip to Wome...My vewy fiwst time on a hooman aiweline(yuck!!!!!)
You can tell wight away that it's no "AIW WUBY"...you have to stand in line with gwumpy hoomans at JFK aiwepowt

then aftew they fwisk you and xway you and stuff..you have to wait some mowe

when they finally call youw flight..you have to get into youw twavel bag

we flew Delta..they have a size westwiction..not a weight westwiction..I would have been too big fow some aiwelines to go up fwont, ..anyway..I got into my bag, and cuwled up, and slept till I got to Wome..(Asta had some ice cubes during the flight, no tranquelizers, and no food)
We awwived in Wome and I got out, stwetched and was weady fow adventoowe...oh and fiwst I pee peed on the cuwb at the aiwepowt

This is the entwance to ouw hotel..it's in the CENTRO STORICO section...it's the top two floows of an apawtement building..with the nicest hoomans you can imagine wunning it HOTEL PAWLAMENTO
I unpacked..maps, and toys of couwse...that's my special toy fwom Kirby taht I took along fow the twip..I also had a cown cob in my bag..which I chewed up doowing the flight, and a ball

We went out wight away..this is ouw cowmew

immediately ,I met my fiwst Woman puppy fwiend...we talked wif no pwoblem

and my pawents and I just stawted to wandew awound ouw neighbowhood

I don't wemembew the name of evewy squawe..thewe awe so many..awound pwactically evewy cownew..it's whewe people gathew..and thewe's oosually a monument ow a fountain..ow bof

This is neaw the PIazza Navone...but it's too eawly fow lunch

can you believe this????pawking fow doggies, hehehehehe

The weathew was supew..so evewyone ate outside..including us

We loved the small cuwvy stweets..bootiful cobblestones and gowgeous colows evewywhewe

The buildings awe hooge..but not hooge like NY...just monoomental and bootiful

I got thiwsty walking , and had a dwink ....thewe awe fountains evewywhewe with delicious watew..if you put a fingew on the bottom of the faucet, you get watew coming out the top and hoomans can dwink fwom it

This is the Campo dei Fiori...it's a fwuit, vegebal mawket on a vewy pwetty squawe

Hewe is anothew doggie...he's off the leash...but neaw his ownew, and vewy well behaved

awound evewy cownew thewe is anothew chuwch I lit candles fow my sick and missing fwiends in sevewal of them(Mommi helped when they wouldn't let me in)

finally it's time fow a gelato bweak...I had a hawd decision to make..which flavow??????????

I thought the pistachio was a vewy pwetty colow...and it suwe tasted gweat!!!!

this is the inside of the Pantheon..(it is the best pwesewved of the ancient Woman Buildings-AD 118-125...The cupola, fowmed with one single application of cement ovew a wooden fwame, is on of the lawgest masonwy domes evew built.The powtico opens onto a pawfectly pwopowtioned wotunda: five concentwic ciwl\cles of coffews leading to the oculus, 30 ft in diametew and the only souwce of light in the temple...the awtist Waphael is buwied hewe..he was weally good!!

I could only peek in..I'm not allowed in chuwches, so My pawents took tuwns going in

don't these colums look hooge???

and thewe awe some enouwmous doggies...ummm. I mean howsies , but they wewe fwiendly so it was OK
We went back to the hotel fow a nap..and the ownew gave us a bottle of wine to go enjoy on the wooftop tewwace

This was the view fwom up thewe

Then aftew ouw nap , we wewe off again...and finally wound up ouw fiwst day having a gweat dinnew at Settimio AllArancio.....wondewful food on a small stweet neaw ouw hotel
That's a sappy pictoowe of Mommi..but she was just so happy , she couldn't make a nowmal face hehehehehe

We walked home..and to bed....a pawfect fiwst day!!!!!

Awwivato a New Yowk

MADONNA MIA!!!!!!! Mi scusi...ma what a Viaggio I had!!!! I got home ieri sera.....
I'm soo vewy jet lagged..I don't even know whewe I am...heheheheh
I missed all of you and thought of you the whole time...I hope you all got the Gelati I sent thwough the pootew...

I was sad to leave Wome ..it was so bootiful!!

but then I awwive home..to the most wondewfullest suwpwise!!!!
I was scawed evewyone would fowget me..and instead you wewe all hewe to welcome me home!!!

I thought I was tiwed , till I saw the fun to be had with all my fwiendses...

I'm so happy I was in time to celebwate Ruby's Birfday pawty!!!!!...thank you Ruby fow bwinging evewyone wif youw plane!!(I suwe wish I would have flown wif you instead of the stoopid hooman plane...it sucked)

and all my cat fwiends came wif Opus and Roscoe's flying bus...(I had just seen Opus and Roscoe in Italy..but they decided to come join the festivities hewe too...I'm sooo vewy glad that ALL my fwiends got along)

I heawd that special awwangements had been made fow kitty toilets on the woof...and even Joe Stains didn't leave a stain in the apawtement....

This is the most wondewfullest Welcome home anyone could evewy have!!!
I want to especially thank all the hawd wowk by my fwiends Koobuss, Lacie,Scruffy,babyStan, Sassy cat,Karl, Zoolatry..Opus and Roscoe.. I hope I haven't left anyone out...Thank you all fow showing up..and bwinging food and dwinks, and owganising all the fun games and dancing and eating and Ruby 's pawty too!!!

don't wowwy about the mess..it's nothing!!! The joy in seeing all of you mowe than makes up fow it!!!


We all cwashed at some point...I still can't figoowe out if I'm on Wome time ow NewYowk time...so at some point I got vewy hungwy, and heawd that some of my fwiends had gone to Pastis fow Bweakfast..so I decided to join them..I think the catses awe on a diffewent schedoole than the doggies...(they stay up all night, hehehe, and sneep all day sometimes)

I have so many stowies and pictoowes fwom my twip..I want to tell you evewything..and I'll stawt tomowwow...but fiwst..I have to get some sneep...

oh the howwow of it...as soon as I felled asneep, I was wudely woken and made to take a baf!!! All my lovely souveniew smells fwom Wome awe now gone!!!
Is thewe no end to the widicoolousness of hoomans???

now I'm weally going to twy to sneep!!!................. ci vediamo presto
smoochie kisses to all of you...I weally missed you a lot!!!!!!

NEWS FROM WOME!!!

Hi to all of Asta's fuwwy fwiends!
It's Myrna again.
My sissy wanted me to let you all know (especially all the wowwiews out there), that she and mom and dad awe just fine—having a gweat time and lots of gelato. She'll be home in about fow days and will have lots of stowies I'm suwe.

In the meantime, she sends to all

SMOOCHIE BACIS!

Myrna

It's Wheeley Wednesday!

SUWPRISE! Just cuz my sissy, Asta, and my mom and dad awe in Wome without a 'puter doesn't mean I can't give you an up-to-date weport on my life. I'm staying for the week at auntie Kawen's house with my vewy special fwiends, Stewart, a charming and intelligent tewwiew boy; Georges, who's fwom Fwance and has a collection of lovely scawves, which he weaws in thwees; and Little Snow, who stays up almost all night and is nevew too tiwed to play the next day.


Auntie Kawen's apawtment has lots of windows and is not too high up, so we can watch what's going on down on the stweet. Fwom the kitchen window, we can watch some constwuction that's going on—booooowwwiiinng (auntie Kawen says it's a guy thing).

So Snow and I like the living woom the best. It faces the cownew and about a gazillion people go by, lots of them wight under our window, which gave us an idea. Stewart and Georges heawd about a twick of filling balloons with watew and dwopping them from high up and seeing them splattew on the gwound below (or possibly on someone who got in the way, heheheh). We were thinking it might be fun, but auntie Kawen said it wasn't such a good idea aftew all, that the police might get involved. I think I wemember heawing about some of sissy Asta's fwiends who had a police "incident" and, well, we decided to wethink the balloons.

Instead, Stewart played the piano. He's weally good and knows lots of songs and Little Snow has a beautiful voice, as you might expect.


Georges wead us a book about a little pwince who comes fwom a tiny planet and whose twavels bring him to Eawth whewe he leawns many things. Georges had to twanslate as he went along 'cause it was in Fwench. Thewe's a pawt about a snake that ate an ephelant, which made us hungwy. So we owdewed some pizzas.

This is a gweat vacation so faw and I have pwactically a whole week left. I just hope my sissy and my mom and dad are having as good a time as I am. And I hope all my Wheeley fwiends are having a good time, too, whewevew they'we playing today.
Love, Myrna

Pee Ess: I suwe hope someone weads this!!! It occuwed to me that no one is expecting it since last week I said I'd be away. I fowgot that auntie Kawen might have a 'puter. DUH!