Packing Up, Shipping Out

Crazy to say it, but it's time to get out of Rome and into Greece.

I'd planned to do so many posts on what it's like to just be here in the city, but after getting our computer back and catching up on all that needed to be caught, I'm spent.

Know this though: One month in Rome has been a wild ride for us. Not in the way it would have been when we were 20, but in a way that I think we can both look at and say, "This was good, I'm better for it."

Fact of the matter is that we're growing up and this trip has made us look that fact straight in the eyes. While we've been here we've gotten news of engagements from our friends back home, weddings have happened that we've missed and housewarmings have been rsvp'd with regrets to our newly mortgaged friends. We're starting to turn in to managers, husbands and wives, homeowners and teetotalers.

The contrast between "us" and "them" right now is dramatic, but only for these three months. In July we get back to our lives, or some version that resembles it, but for right how, on to Greece.