Glad!

10:50pm or 5:50am Singapore time. I was up for an hour now and was unable to go back to sleep. It's blogging time!

I am glad we did not take packaged tour. I can sleep when I am tired instead of following a tight schedule. My boys slept together in our room as they are not used to alone in a strange place. B1 was sleeping alone back home. B2 keeps repeating if "big gor gor" is here, the dinner mummy cooked will be just nice, if big gor gor is here, it will be so much fun, if big gor gor is here, we can have better value for the hotel, if big gor gor is here, ...

All of us missed "big gor gor" or big brother. The good thing about travelling to Europe is time difference is only 7 hours. So there is a window where we are wide awake and active. The other reason why I am glad we did not take package tour is our boys especially B3 is has short attention span. He get bored with touristy activities.

There were a few old cathedrals that we went in to see and since they are place of worship, we pray for safe and secure future. It is amazing that man build such gigantic structures in olden times with stones and primitive tools. They are great feats of engineering. one dome has a skylight. The glass cover itself is amazing and putting it in place and securing it won my admiration of our forefathers. The artwork and sculptures are life-like. No wonder Italians are known for their design and creativity. They started a few hundreds years ago!