Mike and Emily came to visit us from Indiana in May and we took them around to see Sicily visiting sites such as Agrigento and the Vineyards of Mt. Etna. Their trip was capped off by a stay at the COS Agritourismo along with many of our friends from the Base. Shannon had organized the trip to be a murder mystery party so many of our guests dressed up and brought props to play their parts. 
In June my parents came to visit from Detroit. We showed them parts of Sicily and we tried lots of the local dishes. During their trip Mom and Jim invited us to go on a cruise with them around the Western Mediterranean. On the cruise we visited Carthage, Tunisia; Majorca, Spain; Barcelona, Spain; Provence, France; Genoa, Italy; and Pompeii, Italy. We saw a lot on a one week cruise and had a great time. 
Next Jeremy and Lisa came to visit us from Chicago. We showed our visitors some Sicilian sites and booked a visit to an Agritourismo in the Vittoria province of Sicily. Vittoria is a wine growing area and during the trip we spent time visiting Ragusa, the wineries and chilling out by the pool.
In July my sisters came to visit- Carrie is entering her senior year of high school and Teresa is in college back in Michigan. They had never been to Europe before so it was fun to show them around Sicily and explain how old everything is here on the island. After visiting Palermo, Syracuse and the Aolian Islands the girls and I took a 10 day road trip through Italy. We crossed the Straits of Messina to the mainland and stopped in cities all throughout the peninsula. Along the way we visited Pompeii, Florence, Milan, Lake Como, Verona, Venice and Rome. It was epic.
