Day Twelve - the Trip for St. Pietro and Paolo

One of the few traditions we have established and keep up with during our biennial visit to Rome, is to follow along a group of people who call themselves Ex-Allievi (ex-students) of the Borgo Ragazzi don Bosco. My father was one of them and so is my uncle. Each year, on June 29 or thereabout, they go for a day trip somewhere around central Italy.

This year it was the time to make it to Bolsena, the biggest volcanic lake in Europe and Orvieto, a lovely medieval town with a spectacular cathedral. We ate a splendid restaurant everything fish, Marco even managed to get wet and drove the bus for a while. Marco was amazed at how "older" people do not get bored at all, they can sing forever on the bus and pray like there's no tomorrow. We even made it a day mass in a nice church were a miracle was supposed to have happened a few centuries ago.

I am a bit tired as of now, so I am only posting this brief summary and some pics. I will soon get down to a new little video montage and more details of our day. Tomorrow the ids make it to Arcinazzo where about another 500 kids from similar summer camps meet together and play games. THey will surely come home half dead but also happy.

All is well at this corner of the world.