Sara's Blog

Last week Keith and I took a few days to visit Rome, a city we’ve both wanted to see for so long. How beautiful! We had a great time…ate a lot, walked a lot and ate a lot more!

I’ve put a few of the 175 photos I took in the Gallery—of course, my new challenge is to get them all scrapbooked, so this morning I went to a photo center to have them printed. The very busy clerk directed me to the photo kiosk (in Dutch) then scurried to the back room somewhere. So I think I will have photos to pick up in a few days…we’ll see if I operated the machine properly!

One note: In the Gallery you’ll see Keith sitting innocently in a cute little motorized bicycle car. I thought it would be fun to take a relaxing ride around the Villa Borghese park. I forgot that Keith Naumann is a speed-demon on a bicycle (even one like this). Five minutes into our ride, I was shrieking, “Apply the brake! Apply the brake!” as we rocketed down a sloping path, narrowly missing a gelato cart. “We aren’t going that fast,” Keith said calmly as we made a dramatic gravel-spraying u-turn, “It only goes about 20 miles an hour.” Turns out being a white-knuckled passenger was good practice for our taxi ride to the airport the next day!

PS. The summer issue of Paper Wishes should be coming to you next week! I’ve just gone through it and it is packed with cool stuff—I’ve got my eye on about 20 new things I’ve just got to have!