Verona

Also with Stephanie and her family we went to Verona. It's about 2-3 hours from the house and was a really cool city! Romeo and Juliet was set in Verona and there is also an amazing colliseum where they still have Opera in the summer. Here is Mom and I on a bridge with the old city behind us. It's very cool the city has an old sections that is seperated by the river. It was about a million degrees that day though, so we are all really hot...



They still have "Juliet's balcony" that you can do see, and you can leave a letter to Juliet for love advice on the wall. I was really suprised that this area was really just a tiny little courtyard. I guess I thought it would be in a bigger area, but it was still cool to see.



Later that night we actually went to one of the Operas at the coliseum. It was so cool to be in an arena that old, and think about how it would have been back in Roman times. We sat up on the marble steps just like they would have in ancient times and watched Madame Butterfly. And, just like ancient times, my butt was killing me at the end...that marble is really hard!



The floor of the coliseum was split between the set for the Opera and more setting, we also had fun watching the fashion show of spectators with our binoculars. It was way to hot for sequins in my opinion, but there were some people doing it! There were also 5 harps set up in the orchestra pit...seriously, who needs 5 harps!?



Here is one of the scenes from the Opera. Basically it's about an American sailor who comes to Japan. He marries this woman, then leaves and comes back like 5 years later, but with another wife. She was secretly pregnant with his child when he left, so there is a little kid involved. She eventually kills herself because he's going to stay with his current wife...and he takes the kid. That's the Opera in nutshell:)