Nov. 19, 2004
Thank God it's Friday! We go home tomorrow. We've had a good day, just not as relaxing as yesterday in Ostia Antica. It was cloudy and cool all day. Thankfully it didn't rain. We went to a museum on Rome very near our hotel. It was good. We got separated from Lynn so we thought she was still inside. We waited around for awhile. We finally left Jon to wait for her and went back to the hotel. Come to find out she had come back to the hotel.
After Bob and Lynn worked on hotel reservations for the next leg of their trip we went to find the catacombs. They are very interesting. We were with a small tour group. It's very damp since it's underground. The graves are just dug in the sides of the walls. There are 150,000 tombs. There's no way to know how many were buried there since some families would be buried in one tomb together. There's about eleven miles of catacombs in this area. There are 60 plus catacombs in Rome! They were buried here because it was cheaper than other land. We couldn't take any pictures though. And no place to wander around. I would hate to get lost in there. The first guy to discover the area was lost for 4 days.
Now we're back at the hotel. We may go one more time to the Spanish steps. That's where I got a cheap print and I may want one to go with it. Langston's still looking for a souvenir. Then we'll be packing for tomorrow! Bob and Lynn leave by 8:30. We leave for the airport at 10:00.
We've found a John Wayne movie in Italian. We just watched Sponge Bob in Italian.
We went to the Spanish Steps that evening. We walked to the top of the steps, 137 or so in all. I found my cheap print, and Langston found a little "camera" that shows pictures of Rome.
We ate at a nice restaurant nearby where we had a very funny waiter. We enjoyed our last meal in Italy. The metro was empty going back, thankfully. We said our goodbyes to Bob and Lynn. They traveled on to Florence, Venice and Zurich in the next few days before returning to Dallas.
Our trip home was pretty tiring. We didn't realize we'd have a stopover in Milan, just an hour after we'd gotten on the plane in Rome. We had to unload all our things, go through security and look for a place to get a bite to eat. We were there 2 hours. I think it really drained us. One thing I found unusual in the airport - the trash bins are divided for recycling! Of course, I couldn't tell anyone in the airport was recycling in them! We were just throwing trash in them!
With the three hour time difference we arrived in Dubai at 9:30 pm. (Rome time) By the time we got to bed at the Bloughs it was 2:30 am Dubai time. It was a short night. Langston was up by
8:30. We ended up taking an earlier flight than our 10:15 pm one. We left Dubai at 2:15 and were able to make it to AWANA. Although we missed spending more time with the Bloughs we were glad to get home at a good time. We enjoyed sleeping in our own beds that night.
Thank God for a safe trip!!
Posted by nellie at November 29, 2004 09:21 PM