Itinerary

Hello all,

I have had some requests for my itinerary this summer so this is how it stands as of now:

JUNE:
4: Arrive early in the morning in Paris CDG, meet up with Brendan, take a afternoon train into Normandy
5: D-Day tour in Normandy
6: Earlier train back into Paris, Brendan heads to ride part of the Tour de Fance with Terry and I will spend some time in Paris until the 10th
10: Morning flight to Krakow, arrive around 1:45pm
11: Touring Krakow
12: Tour of Auschwitz
13: Krakow in the morning, evening flight into Rome, arrive at 10:55pm
14-19: Touring Rome
20: Early train to Florence
21-22: Touring Florence, evening train to Venice
23-25: Touring Venice, evening train to Milan
26-27: Touring Milan, evening train to the Cinque Terre region
28-29: Enjoying the coast and then an early train to Seina the 29th
29 & 30: Siena, late train to Assisi

JULY:
1: Assisi, late train back to Rome (spend the night there)
2: Morning in Rome, mid-day/afternoon train out Naples
3: Naples
4: Early train back to Rome
5: Early flight to Athens
5-7: Athens
8-9: Bus to Delphi early the 8th, tour Delphi the remainder of the 8th & 9th
10: Early bus to Athens, afternoon/evening boat to Hydra
11: Touring Hydra
12: Morning Boat to Athens, bus to Olympia
13: Olympia
14: Morning bus to Nafplio
15: Day trip to Mycenae
16: Day trip to Epidavros
17: Morning bus return to Athens, evening flight to Paris
18-22: Visits to French Chateaus?
~23/24: Avignon
25: Montpelier
26: Train to Barcelona/Madrid
~27/28 Train to Alicante if family is available, otherwise flight home

Obviously the ending of my trip has some planning to be determined, but until I have gotten in touch with the Spanish side of the family it is a little up in the air. We shall see how it goes! It certainly has given me a starting off point.

This is the FIIIII-NAL Packdown

Thank goodness I am moving to Chicago at the same time that Jack had to prepare the house in South Bend for the new buyer because I don't know if I would have realized just how much I accumulated over the past four years. Fortunately I didn't procrastinate and did a little at a time so things went fairly smoothly the past four or five days in terms of packing the house and preparing for the movers to arrive on Tuesday (aka tomorrow).

Does it seem possible that tomorrow I will be picking up keys to my new apartment? Actually YES. It didn't seem like graduation would ever arrive with the amount of planning that it involved, hence it snuck up on all graduates, but the move does seem like a possibility after a week or preparation.

I am looking forward to living with two of my favorite chicas from high school in Chicago and all that will ensure. It is a little sad to be saying goodbye to our house in South Bend though. In typical fashion, the fleet all assembled to tackle on the challenge:



Now the next step is to begin to convince the parents to move back to the North Shore area...

Adventures to Come

Hello everyone!!

I hope you missed me, I know I have been out and about for my last year at Notre Dame in the beautiful South Bend, IN. Speaking of, I have now graduated, which means off to the real world and (pretending to have an) adult life.

Things have been quite busy actually with the end of the year in our family. My dad is in the midst of chaos as work, Jack, Jules, Mom and I working on getting the house prepared for the closing, working on the possibility of buying a boat and me preparing to leave for some backpacking in Europe!

So to fast forward through senior year here were a few of the highlights from the past few weeks. A beautiful spring break in the Cayman Islands (mostly thanks to some creative searching for deals):


Attending the Kentucky Derby:


Finishing my Senior Design Project:

Attending the Senior Commencement Ball

'Partying' with my favorite girls at Babetostal:




And of course getting to Graduation Weekend. Friday night we attended a lovely BBQ hosted by the Geraci & Leis families and then went to the Silverhawks Stadium in South Bend for a evening of events planned by the boys of Dillon hall.

And then, of course, came the main event itself:


After my own graduation, my mom and I headed to Colorado Springs to see Karl's graduation from the Air Force Academy...


Congratulations to all graduates!