Yeah, trips to Switzerland and Rome next week

We've been laying pretty low the last few days, but I just realized that school starts in another week or so, so we need to get off our butts and make a couple trips.

Tomorrow we are taking the train to Lake Trasimeno, about a 25 minute ride away. It's supposed to rain tomorrow, so we'll have to see. But for 2.10 euros one way, we should be going out to the lake more often, especially with this heat.

I was going to rent a car and take off driving, but everything in town is rented out, I'm guessing for peoples' August vacations. So that is down the drain for now. Jessica heaved a sigh of relief, she HATES my driving here.

Next to one of the two bus stations in town is a little tourist information place we stopped into today. They do bus trips all over, Florence, Pisa etc, but not until September. We are looking forward to that, they go all over, art trips, cuisine trip etc.... looks awesome!! The only trip they have this time of the years is a weekly trip on Tuesdays to Rome. 42 euros, includes the bus, tour guides, etc. A really good deal, we can take our cameras, relax and play tourist and let someone else do the driving!

Then when I was at the Trenitalia site looking for places to go, since car rental is out of the question, they showed a special to Zurich! Yes! You can leave Florence at 11 pm, get a 2 sleeper compartment, sleep all night, get to Zurich around 7 am. Then you have all day to wander around Zurich, get back to the train by about 8 or 10 pm, then sleep all night and get into Florence about 8 am, then take the train back down to Perugia! That will be our big outing before school starts. We will have to leave the cats alone a day and 1/2, but they should be fine for that amount of time.

I'm pretty excited to go see the Alps, the weather is only in the lower 70s now, which will be wonderful! We can go, have breakfast, yodel a bit, see the Alps, sing a song from the Sound of Music, buy some Swiss chocolate, maybe a watch or two, dinner, then head back home. Yes! It will be nice to get out of town, I have to admit.

Well we are running late tonight, mom just called and I had to tell her to call back in 45 minutes. Going to end this here. Ciao!