Past few days

Tuesday morning we woke up at Steve's place in Vicenza. We slept in and as soon as we walked out to explore, we found a farmers market. Zabeth did a potato load, so we went back up and dropped those at the apt. Then we walked up the hill from the city center to a big dome, built by Palladio. He is the main draw for the town as he revived Greek architecture there in the 1500s. There's a big church as well, The basilica Palladina, monte berico. Well a lot of stuff. As it was a relaxing day for us we made the berico our main stop. Steve called and invited us rock climbing with another American, Sara. We spent two hours in the woods, followed by one hour eating pizza. The next day we were supposed to take the train to Verona, but it was raining all day. We left at 9 for tickets, but as the weather was crap, just came home and rested until the noon train. As soon as we arrived in Verona we bought an umbrella, then plodded miserably along for half an hour. Rather than allow our swamp feet and inverted umbrellas to stop us, we pushed on through to the arena. One of the biggest ever built, and still regular home to live music. One click of the camera, and our journey was complete. We bought two kebabs, then agreed to lay off the kebabs for a while. Walked outside and the sun broke through.... Figuratively as we bought a bus ticket and rode three minutes to the train station. Our train was delayed over an hour, to our liking, since we had nowhere to be in this rain soaked mess. At six we got back to Steve's and just kind of relaxed. We Cooked the potatoes, which for Zabeth was like Christmas. Then we packed our bags in anticipation of leaving again Thursday morning.