Tim, you are a good picture taker. How many memory cards did you take?
8 - 64 gig cards..... 
It was a "numbers game"...The more you take - the more likely you get one or two keepers... 
It looks like you guys had a great time . buuut i did not see one gelateria you don't like ice cream ? 
Those pics are coming...my hands were shaking in one gelateria...150 flavors!!!! 
Some beautiful pics Tim!
A whole lot to go through!
Thanks Mike! - but...what you are seeing in that album is about 265 shots out of 12,000 
...I am trying to assemble the best of the Tuscany shots today. Hope to have that album up soon, as in by lunch. We will test the limits of our T-1 's bandwidth Great pictures, and amazing history.
Thanks aruckus! - It is an amazing country that can claim: "All roads lead to Rome" as a part of it's historical significance and influence - because in terms of commerce, military issues, or religion - there was a time that the above adage was true.
Just thinking . . . your film bill would have been astronomical back in the old days
I can't remember what I paid for the last roll of Kodachrome I used in my old Nikon SLR, but your digital camera paid for your trip! That is my wife's kind of economics, anyway 
Hub
Hub - I suppose whatever the cost of buying, and developing 500 rolls of 24 exposure 35mm film would be... Like 1 - kidney? Great pics Tim! Looks like you all had a tremendous time!
But with all the pics you took....how did you ever have enough time to eat and drink?
The food pictures deserve a "place of honor"...so I am sorting them into their own album. Trust me Gene...I did not want to come back. And - tho I wince a little when I think of it...Texas may have to take a second position as place I will really retire to. Doing some preliminary work on costs now.It looks like you guys had a great time . buuut i did not see one gelateria you don't like ice cream ?
What the Building with the polished ball or sphere? It looks like your seeing a portal into another place.
That was the courtyard in the Vatican, I can't remember the name of it - but it is before you enter the Vatican Museum. The sculpture in so well balanced on bearings that our tour guide could rotate it, and it would rotate - gliding silently for minutes until it coasted to a stop. I have some additional pic of it showing the interior in detail. Pretty "trippy" looking in person...
The Vatican is the largest repository of "pagan art" in the world. i know that sounds strange - but,it is true......And was told to me by our tour guide who is Italian, Catholic, and hold a PhD. in Archeology - with an emphasis in Roman Catholic History.
