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Back to the US and our drive home

 We now have to leave the happiest place on earth (for us).  We were picked up in the morning for our flight to Rome.  Poppy is an awesome driver.  He told us stories, he was so much fun  Well worth the money.  We got the airport in plenty of time.  Spent the rest of our Euros on duty free items and gifts.  And had our worst meal ever in Italy.  :-(.This is the only picture from Italy where I am not smiling.  We then were off for Toronto.  Landed in Toronto, went to the hotel, which had no food, but let had free snacks and went to bed.  We were still on Italian time.  So we were up early.  We checked out and decided to drive to Niagara Falls on the Canadian side.  It was gorgeous but disappointingly, nothing was really open.   After we left the falls, we went to the Fallsview Casino.  With our rewards card and the free money we got for being new members, I won the equivalent of $80 US.  Woohoo...

Pompeii and last day in Sorrento

  We started our day with a trip to Pompeii.  We took the train and walked down.  We decided to just do the walking tour.  It was the hottest freaking day.  But it was really cool to walk around.  This blog post is going to be very very picture heavy.  I am pretty much doing a Pompeii picture dump.  Until I get to lunch, snacks and late night dinner.   The were doing a dig while we were there.   The shire to a woman After a hot day of walking around, we were starving.  So we went to the Hotel Vittoria.  They were so busy, they had a wedding inside.  I had these beautiful scampi on my pasta and Ronnie had his favorite mussels and clams etc.  The meal was delicious.  When we were done we walked around the markets in Pompeii before getting the train back to Sorrento and spending our last night in the city we grew to love over the last few days.   We also stopped at a little place right across fro...