An Exerpt From the Travel Journal

Although time only permitted a brief stroll across Palermo's business district, as well as a visit to the eerie catacombs, I feel much more accomplished in that trip than just the average tourist experiences. That which was accomplished, was the needed and partly expected bonding that a group, especially in our case, will share while in the midst of an adventure as ambitious as this.

I would like to think that my persistant attempts to coerce the group into drinking Absinthe is partly responsible for this, but in actuality, it was bound to happen regardless. It was truly a night of good-hearted fun and while some expected us to become annoyed with one another, I feel, and I can only speak for myself, that if anything, it has boosted us above the 'staff'' label. The night began with a loose agreement to share a drink of the 'green fairy', and by the end of the night, the quotes were aflying.

-Mikey "We put the 'sin' in 'Absinthe'