It is almost time for our odyssey to begin! Carolyn and I have both packed our main bags (she has 2 to make the 50 pound limit I managed to make it in 1 with a few pounds to spare). We will leave our final carry on packing until tomorrow .
Our plane leaves Friday morning at 6:45AM -- YIKES!! -- that means we will need to be at the airport around 4:30AM which puts our departure from casa de Millsap at 4AMish ... you can then figure what time we need to set the alarm for ... YIKES again!!
The flight to Newark will take about 3.5 hours putting us in Newark around 11:30AM Eastern. The good news is we should have PLENTY of time to catch the flight to Rome ... it departs Newark at 5:30PM and a mere 8 hours and 20 minutes later we will be in Rome Italy at 7:50AM Saturday morning. -- YIKES --
Once we get thru customs in Rome (and we can only HOPE we don't have a repeat of the "fighting old farts" Vancouver incident!) we will seek out our shuttle transfer to the hotel where we will hopefully meet up with our friends Woodie, Linda, Paul and Jeanne. They should have gotten to Rome from Germany today ... hope they made it!!
Once we hook up in Rome and get settled in the hotel we have a full day of site seeing planned Saturday. Top of that agenda is the Vatican and associated spots like the Sistine Chapel -- DOUBLE YIKES!! never figured I'd actually get to see something like that in person! --
After a full day of site seeing stacked on top of basically 24 hours of travel ... we hope to get some much needed sleep and then Sunday see the sites around our hotel that will include the famous Roman Coliseum, the Trevi Fountain at night, and several other famous Roman hot spots.
Monday morning we will take a shuttle from the hotel to the pier in Civitavecchia a port city about 80km from Rome. We will board the Grand Princess for 12 days of what we fully expect to be astounding adventure and wonder. The weather so far is projected to be very tolerable and we have our collective fingers crossed.
Oh ... and of course Thursday night (tomorrow) we have to attend the Ranger football game ... they are playing for the district championship! That will get us home about 10PM ... gotta get up around 3:30AM --- YIKES!!!!! ---
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Yikes, yikes, and yikes...but it'll be a trip of your lifetime. Worth the early mornings, long flights, etc. Kick ass with any grumpy old farts. - Steve
Wow, squeezing in a game the night before an EARLY rise? Aren't we adventurous?
We hope you have safe, easy travels and get enough sleep to take it all in!!!
Have fun Bade ! Sounds like another great avdventure :)
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