Well I am back from my 6 weeks abroad. It was amazing. I spent five weeks studying in Rome and I can't put in to words how beautiful everything was. I visited Venice, Florence, Pompeii, Assisi, and Siena and all were beautiful. Siena was probably the most beautiful though. I spent the last week in Ireland visiting family. It was my first time there and I can't wait to go back. It is one of the most beautiful countries. well I will write more later because I am going out now to see friends and go to the Taste of Chicago. You can go here though to look at all of my over 600 pictures from the last six weeks. 
http://s197.photobucket.com/albums/aa308/mquirk86/?start=0
P.S-I got home yesterday after nearly 11 hours on the plane because we sat on the runway for 3 hours 
but I just wanted to tell all my ER buddies that ER helped me pass the time those 3 long hours because I had a mini dvd player and brought all my ERs and watched some of my favorite episiodes
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Hey MK! It's great to see you back. After I get the girls down for a nap I will go through your pictures. Can't wait to see them. I'm so happy for you that you were able to see Italy and Ireland!
ETA: I just watched the slideshow of your pictures. I was literally salivating through the Ireland pictures! I don't think I've seen anything more beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing these with us. 
How was the Taste? I heard it was really crowded on Friday. I'm either going Thursday the 5th or Friday the 6th.
ER4life
I'm glad you had a fun and safe trip!
The architecture there is brilliant... especially the cathedrals.