Alright now for the abbreviated continuation of our italy saga. Once we arrived to Noto , we found out our luggage arrived in catania. Since we flew discounted airline they would not ship our luggage so the next morning we drove back up to the airport (1 1/2 hr to catania to get the luggage. Skeen had his running nose getting worse but we hoped the sleeping during the drive would help. One the round trip we stopped through Siracusa, a great baroque city and stopped on the old town Ortigia. It was pretty windy and that section is really beautiful. the old peninsula and we walked around about 1 hr. It was pretty qiuet since we were there the lunch hour when everything was closed. Saw the old Apollo greek theatre ruin. I think it is like 6 BC anyways very old. also the Athena fountain, a spring with an old legend. that part of Sircusa was some of my favorite buildings and streets , narrow curvy stone streets. There is also an old castel at the tip that I wanted to see but found out later you can only tour through a boat trip excursion. Skeen wasn't looking to hot so we cut the day short and headed back to the orchard apartment and tried to get skeen to rest . He wanted to go out and play with the frisky cats. The next morning Skeen didn't seem much better but wanted to play outside. We bundled him up and took him on a walk in the orchard to see the miniture ponies the owners had. He was pretty mad still and didn't get happy seeing them. I didn't feel that he was looking any better and when he wasn't happy after a nights rest, his breathing was also getting raspy. we asked our landlady about a doctor to check him out. She made some calls and the only place we could go was the emergency at the hospital. To make a long story short we went to the hospital and they checked him out listened to his lugs and immediately started him on O2 treatments, then X rayed his lugs. Our land lady was great and interpreted the best she could for us as no one at the hospital spoke english. HE had bronchial pneumonia and they wanted us to stay there. I was allowed to sleep over but kurt had to stay at the apartment. So the next 4 days I stayed with skeen in the hospital room. The other kids had diarrehia so the doctors didn't want him our around the hospital and in the play area. Skeen hated it and yelled alot for a walk and wanted to play with kids. Kurt bought a bag of balloons and so we tried to play with those in the room with our him getting to mad. Skeen was getting better but the hospital system is bare bones . They don't cater to you like they do here . I was starting to get sick since it was shared bathrooms and no soap. We were able to get them to let us go back to the apartment and continue treatments there. So after arriving at the ospetele on wed we were able to go home sat. We borrowed a oxygen inhaler from a neighbor and got drugs at the farmacia and continure treatment at the apartment for 2 more days. It was nicer there so we could at least cook and skeen wasn't stuck in the hospital room . Tuesday we were able to get our and toured in the morning noto and ancient noto ruins the old city that was destroyed after an earthquake in the 16th century. Wed we went back to sircusa and saw the ortigia area again and went to the greek ruins and saw the ear of dionysis caves and greek coliseum from the era of Heron the II. Very cool old stuff.