Thursday, December 11

Well it was finally time for the trip everyone was waiting for, Rome.

I woke up at around 5 am, about 3 hours earlier than I had planned. That always happens when I get nervous for some big trip or vacation. But luckily this gave me a little extra time for packing. Since I live in Cleveland and the dorms were going to be locked up by the time we got back from Rome, I had to make sure to pack everything I would need for the trip and all of the things I would need at home over the rest of Winter break.

Like I said, I live in Cleveland, and since I'm a freshman, I didn't have a car, so I had to find a ride to the airport that morning. Luckily, Abby was able to offer me a ride so that worked out very well. The trip to the airport didn't go so well. Before we left, OneStop had called Abby and said that she had to stop in before she left because the needed to confirm something. After that was done, we were running just a little late, but then we got on the highway. Traffic was significantly worse than we had planned for. It took us way longer to get to the airport than we thought and so of course by the time we got there, we were the last ones there and everyone was just sitting right inside the terminal waiting for us. A great way to start off a trip.

Going through the aiport and security was no problem. I can't remember anything eventful happening on the way. We grabbed a little food before our flight left at 1:30 and played a couple card games to pass the time. Eventually, we boarded the plane and it was time to leave. It was a relatively short flight to Atlanta, where we'd be making our connection to Rome.

We had a short layover which wasn't too bad, and again, boarded our next flight without a problem. The flight to Rome wasn't too horrible, a little bit of turbulence here and there, but nothing too bad. It was about a 9 or 10 hours flight and I slept most of the way.

By the time we landed in Roma, it was Friday...