In October 2008,  Ken and Rhonda, along with their daughter Nicole, son in law Paul and their one year old daughter Lucy spent one month in Italy.  They spent the first week in Rome including tours of  the Vatican and Vatican museums.  From there they traveled to Sienna as a home base for another week which include visits to Pisa the Cinqu Terre area and hill towns in central Italy.  The last two weeks were spent in Verona, Florence, Milan and Venice before continuing on the train to Switzerland.