So, Camille got pickpocketed on the subway train in Rome. We went on a trip there with our

family a few weeks ago like kind of a Christmas magic trip. It was great. It was the

last minute thing. We had another trip planned and it all fell through because of sickness at the last minute and then we got healthy and we were like, okay, where's the cheapest place in the world to go that's interesting?

And it just happened to be my favorite place in the world to go that's interesting is Italy

I love Italy I've tried to learn Italian I've kind of spoken Italian at a couple points in my life

I don't have any sense that because I've visited there a lot I somehow have any purchase on the place.

I just like it. I like the people. I like the history. I like the culture. It's just a magical place and I love to go there

whenever I can and learn things and go and look at the places that I like to study and all of that business. And the feeling of wonder that I had the first time I went there, and I wrote on the little blue line subway train and we came up out of the subway station and

Yeah, I'm trying to adjust my eyes and everything as I walked toward the big arch that takes you back out into the great wide world from the underground and boom what do I see

the Coliseum just filling up that whole entryway it was amazing in the background there's the

arch of Constantine over there's the arch of Titus and the forum,

somewhere over there, Julius Caesar got stabbed to death. It's just, it's so in my wheelhouse,

the coolest thing ever, and I felt this great sense of wonder the first time I went there.

Well you'd never get that feeling again but if you want something like it you take people you

care about you take people you love and I've had the chance to do that a

whole bunch and to go explore with a whole bunch of different people who really

mean a lot to me and watch them unwrapped the present of Italy and Rome and all the

history and everything so I wanted that for my kids.

That's why we took the trip. I think they got that experience. But unfortunately we also

got this other life lesson about traveling and being an obvious outsider, no matter how much we try to not

look like an obvious outsider, we did look like obvious outsiders.

Clearly somebody marked us on a crowded subway train, They acted like they didn't know each other.

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