We've arrived!

This post was from yesterday, February 17th ...

So, after 9 hours on a very packed sardine can called Lufthansa flight 4481 we landed in Frankfurt, Germany. From there we boarded a 737 to Roma, Italia. We were so amazed that we never had to go through customs ... just walked right out of the airport to meet our contact who was delivering us to our bed and breakfast in Rome (in a Mercedes, no less ... I like that!). I won't lie ... I wanted to walk back in there and ask the guy behind the counter to stamp my passport with the word "ITALIA". His big german shepherd deterred me a bit, though.

On the way to our first home away from home, we got lost (our driver didn't exactly know where the bed and breakfast was located), but got to see many of the primary tourist spots in town. Can I tell you that the Colosseum is much bigger than I thought? We also got brief looks at the Arc de Triomphe, the Piazza Navona and and a few others and will be making our way to the Vatican City before we leave on Monday. It's so strange to see these places I've read about and imagine the lives of the people that lived here centuries ago.

The adventure's just begun!