Tonight is my last night of being 44. On the island of Sicily. tomorrow we’ll go to a puppet museum for my birthday, and then go out for dinner to a very cute old restaurant I walked by the other day.
We booked our flight home and our last stop on the trip in the last few days. We’d canceled the Japan leg (maybe I wrote about that before) as we’re just too tired of big trips with lots and lots of baggage and want to go when we don’t have to do school. We’ll go in the summer of next year. So the question was where to go instead. We considered practically all of Europe, but decided instead to explore a place we’d already been but wanted more of. Turin was first on our list, but then Rome captured all of our hearts. Plus Christopher found a soccer camp that Aryeh can do there.
In the last week, we traveled to Naples for a night. I liked it a lot, the boys not as much. We did visit this very cool castle at the top of the city, with amazing views of Vesuvius. It’s called Castel Sant’Elmo. Considering that it’s so easy to get there from Rome, we’ll probably go back so we can visit Pompeii.
Feels like I should have some wise words as I’m about to enter this most middle-aged of ages. Not much to say except for that I love my students— just had a couple of online lessons and feeling extra grateful for them. And the family, and this time together with so many memories being made. Hoping we can hold onto them.
