finishing up 2018 in rome!
a couple of days after christmas, we packed our bags and headed to rome. i gotta say, i wasn't super excited for this trip. back in the summer, we booked flights to cologne and rome in december. this was already a lot, and then we got the news that my nephew was getting married, also in december! so gabriel and i sandwiched a trip to the states in between our family trips to germany and italy. and thus the end of 2018 became crazy. as our days in rome approached, i was just tired and wanting to be home for a while. but our jaunt to that amazing city was really, really great, and turned out to totally energize me rather than further exhaust me. we had great weather and great food, and enough time to take things slow. it was actually really wonderful to end the year with a bang in a fascinating place together as a family. here's some photos from our first couple of days in roma.... we decided to split up for seeing the vatican - a place i just don't think two-year-o...