Buongiorno!

We made it to Rome. It was a long trip, but Claire was a real trooper. We call Delta a couple of days ago and reserved a basinette (aka sky cot) for Claire which hooks on to the bulkhead and she can lie down and sleep. But our flight attendent deemed Claire too large for the basinette and refused to give us the basinette - without even trying to see if she would fit! So Claire spent the whole filght either in Lynn's arms (mostly) or my arms (leastly). But so many people told us either a) what a good baby, or b) what a beautiful baby. In walking around in Rome, you don't see kids, which in part is leading to the declining population in Italy.


I think Claire only slept for 3-4 hours on the flight to Rome. I got in about 6 hours and not sure about Lynn (too afraid to ask). We spent about an hour at the airport looking for an ATM to get some euros, but couldn't find one. We got to our hotel and the three of us took a 3-4 hour nap. We continued our quest to find a working ATM, and visited the Colosseum and Forum along the way. A funny thing happened on our way to the forum, we realized that both our ATM cards had expired - Lynn's in Feb and mine in April, and while they both still worked in Atlanta, they didn't in Rome. No wonder we couldn't get any money out. We called our credit union, who turned out to be even more useless than usual. Lynn about had an ATM card from HSBC, but she couldn't remember the PIN and after 5 or 6 tries, the ATM took her card. So, we got about $23 US between us and will be looking for things to do that are free or take credit cards. We'll figure stuff out in the morning when we are not so tired. And i'll post pictures from our outing.



Buona notte