Sentence 1: Tony planned to go to Italy that summer to see his father's family. 
 Sentence 3: He took a few Italian lessons online 
 Sentence 4:  He bought his plane ticket 
 Sentence 5:  But when he was ready to leave his mom got sick and he had to cancel 
 Option 1: He went there all the time to see his father's family. 
 Option 2: Has he had never been there he made a lot of research.