Pictures!

We made it to snowy, cold, cozy and beautiful (but ridiculously expensive) Zermatt! We can see the Matterhorn just outside our hostel, so I guess that´s pretty incredible. Oh and we´re back in the land of z´s and y´s being mixed up on the keyboard, so I´ll do my best. A few recent pictures:

Sunset from our last night in Cinque Terre - this was in Monterosso, I think, as we were headed back to catch the train to our town, Riomaggiore. It had been a drizzly day (and very stormy night).

Earlier that same day, in Manarola, I think, walking along part of the trail that connects Manarola and Corniglia. (By the way, Cinque Terre is composed of 5 little towns: Riomaggiore, Manarola, Corniglia, Vernazza and Monterosso - accessible by train, car, boat or foot.)

We were about to make the walk along Via dell Amore, the most famous of the Cinque Terre hikes (connecting our town and Manarola with a 20 minute walk), but due to the stormy weather, the trails were all closed that day.

Cinque Terre is definitely cat land! This was one of many felines we saw, although most of the others were roaming the streets or creeping into the restaurants...

Sunset from our first night in Riomaggiore.

Our Thanksgiving appetizer in Rome :) We spent a good amount of time dividing this up evenly, down to the last spoonful of gravy.

Ali and Sarah, at the Thanksgiving dinner restaurant.

These crazy birds in Trastevere, a neighborhood in Rome! We stood watching them for quite a long time, but no one else seemed to think it was such a big deal - the birds were just swarming around, moving like amoebas in the air. We asked a girl at the gelato place nearby, and she said this happens, but they´ll be gone by January.

Ali and me on one of the footpath bridges between Trastevere and the Jewish quarter.

Carciofi alla roma - the most amazing artichokes we´ve ever had.

Ali and Sarah in Rome... oh yeah, that´s the Colliseum back there.

Swiss guards at the entrance to Vatican City.

Modest clothing only at St. Peter´s Basilica. Sarah had a little too much skin showing on her back, so she had to cover up!

It takes so long to post pictures, but I´m going to try to do some more, some from earlier in the trip. Ciao, ciao, ciao-ciao-ciao! (The Italians love that word.)