We made it - YEA! One thing you never want to hear your airline pilot say regarding the turbulance you're experiencing, "there are planes above us having trouble staying in the air." Seriously, did we need to know that? The ride to NYC was a bit bumpy but worked itself out. Then we get to our departure gate at JFK and are notified that the flight to Rome is heavily overbooked. We still got on. The kids have been spectacular. Great on the plane an
d then real troopers today as I've forced them to stay awake & adapt to EU time. They also walked abou
t 10 miles. We went to St. Peter's piazza, Castle San Angelo, walked along the river, and stopped in the Pantheon. We also had the good luck to go past the French chapel which has some
remarkable Carravagio's. Murphy's law struck & our tour director (the one that's supposed to be with us the whole trip) got in a car accident & is on bedrest for at least 1 week. We've now been assigned a new one & he should be arriving any time now. The kids are all taking a quick nap and showering before we go to dinner. Talk to you soon! Remember - double click to enlarge a picture, right click to save the image.
We made it - YEA! One thing you never want to hear your airline pilot say regarding the turbulance you're experiencing, "there are planes above us having trouble staying in the air." Seriously, did we need to know that? The ride to NYC was a bit bumpy but worked itself out. Then we get to our departure gate at JFK and are notified that the flight to Rome is heavily overbooked. We still got on. The kids have been spectacular. Great on the plane an
d then real troopers today as I've forced them to stay awake & adapt to EU time. They also walked about 10 miles. We went to St. Peter's piazza, Castle San Angelo, walked along the river, and stopped in the Pantheon. We also had the good luck to go past the French chapel which has some
remarkable Carravagio's. Murphy's law struck & our tour director (the one that's supposed to be with us the whole trip) got in a car accident & is on bedrest for at least 1 week. We've now been assigned a new one & he should be arriving any time now. The kids are all taking a quick nap and showering before we go to dinner. Talk to you soon! Remember - double click to enlarge a picture, right click to save the image.
We met our new Tour Director, Mark, before we went to dinner. He is a native of Germany but has lived all over Europe. He seems really great! Dinner was delicious, authentic Italian pizza. Yum!
ReplyDeleteWe're glad that you all arrived safely! Thank you for keeping us so well informed. We're loving the posts and photos. Looking forward to you're next entry.
ReplyDeleteHope he's a little more "decent" then the last tour director! :P
ReplyDeleteSo jealous I didn't get to go! Hope little buddy's enjoying it and loving having big brother with him!
Eat plenty of Gilatto for me! :D Don't forget to bring me back one of the cool spoons! ;)