Ciao Ciao!

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All good things must come to an end, and our time in Italy is finally over.  It is August 1.  The day has arrived for us to fly back to the good ol' U S of A.  Without a doubt we will be glad to live in the US again, after all we are Americans through and through.  But we will always carry a large piece of Italia in our hearts.  Here are the final family shots before we got on the plane.

Awesome shirts from our homeschool co-op.

Ready or not here we go!  

The flight was a long, long, long flight, made extra painful by delays while we were in the plane at the gates.  The story is a sad tale, and I won't soil the pages of the blog with great detail of its woe.  We arrived safely in Baltimore 4ish hours after our originally scheduled time, and we soon began recalibrating our body clocks to the Eastern Standard Time.