Day 8: Pisa, pit stop in Florence, then Roma!
/Day 8 starts with a sleepy wake up, simple continental breakfast in the TLF room and then packing up the car.
A couple of lessons that my boys taught me this morning:
First, when did I stop getting excited to pick out my own cereal? That's amazing! We live in a culture where we have unprecedented access to food. Watching their enthusiasm to try all the continental breakfast items was a reminder of the importance if giving thanks in all things.
Second, we went out to the park to play and another little boy was there with his mom. His name was Angel, and he was wearing a Batman cape. Elijah and Judah went running onto the playground and immediately engaged with Angel and began to play joyously. When did I stop engaging with people in this joyous, uninhibited manner? Why not go running in with such wild abandon?
We left Camp Darby and drove the 1 hour to Florence, since our waiter the night before convinced Rebekah it was a good idea. Maybe it was the Italian accent or something...
We checked out the downtown area, rode the Picci family antique carousel, walked to the Bartolucci toy store to see the Pinocchio carvings and then got some gelato- yum!! We've found that for the six of us, three small gelatos is the perfect cool-down snack...
Lunch in the car on the way to Rome, then naps while driving.
We arrived in Rome around 5pm, and were met at the apartment on the outskirts of the city by Marco, our next Airbnb host. He. was. awesome. He met us there, had a basket of food for breakfast in the apartment, showed us around his beautiful, huge, AIR CONDITIONED flat and then left us to get settled in.
We had our budget meal for dinner: Spaghetti and tomato sauce with fruit, then got into bed to rest up for a couple of days in Roma.
Rebekah's addendum - I had practiced my creative writing for this day and was in the process of uploading pics when I decided to open light room and beautify a couple of the pics I didn't like - I haven't taken the time to edit any up to this point because of the sheer quantity of them and because of lack of time. I really had NO idea how LITTLE time there would be! Anywho, our computer is quite cheap and had a nervous break down when I tried to open lightroom as it was uploading pics to the website. So Josh wrote this post while I was napping and now I am going to attempt an upload once again.
