ballooning. the true gentleman's pasttime.

First of all, happy birthday to my mother. Secondly, we're up to six photo galleries on my photo site now (scroll down two posts for the link) including yesterday's excursion up above the city in a balloon. It was tethered to the ground so we just went straight up and straight back down, however, they claimed that it's the WORLD'S LARGEST tethered balloon. I dare you to find a larger tethered balloon in America. Go ahead, just try. We also went to the Galleria Borghese yesterday which houses some pretty unbelievable statues by Bernini. If only I had the tools to properly describe them. They were purty though. Then we went down by the Tiber river and all had to read one thing we'd written so far. People's poems all sounded nice, but I can't judge anything like that until I see it in front of me. You could take a haiku about breakfast cereal and if you read it with enough conviction it sounds brilliant. We're on break now until Monday, still don't know where I will head, if anywhere. We'll update this situation as soon as we have more information available.

p.s. i do not like poetry.