A Race to the Airport

We are now at the airport in Rome waiting for our departure flight to arrive at 1:20pm. What an adventure it was this morning. We MISSED our flight. Originally our flight was at 9:30am. We woke up this morning at 6:30am, got ready, had breakfast, and checked out of our hotel at around 7:45am. We had to take the Metro to the train station and then the train to the airport. First of all, the train ride to the airport was horrendous. There was no A/C and everyone on the train was sweating like mad cats and dogs. A majority of the passengers were men as well. So imagine the smell. There were three guys beside Kenny and they were all wearing sweaters and blazers (have no idea what they were thinking) but I could see that Kenny was dying from the smell. When I walked over there to get some water, the smell from the three guys was a mixture of stink and sour…Ewwwww Poor Kenny. Beside me, there was a real big Italian man sweating it up big time. He started to smell his underarms (both underarms) and then turned to his wife and said something in Italian. I am pretty sure he told his wife that he was stinking it up. I could have told him that. There were windows in the plane but it didn’t help as only a small gap could be opened. Let me just tell you that I was going to throw up if I had to stay on that train any longer.
The train finally arrived at the airport at 9:00am. Kenny and I ran like the wind dragging our suitcases behind us. I was literally dying while Kenny was in front yelling to me to take deep breaths. I tried, but I couldn’t. I was going to collapse there. We finally arrived at the terminal and went to the check in counter. Unfortunately, the lady told us that we arrived too late and couldn’t check in. We had to catch the next flight and pay any cost differences. At this point, I was really sad and ready to give up and go home. I thought to myself, I ran to my death and we still missed our flight and now we might even have to pay extra costs. Luckily, when we went to reserve our next flight, the ticket lady told us that no extra costs were needed and that we were reserved for the 12:55pm flight out of Rome to Florence. I was a lot happier when I heard this because we didn’t have to incur any extra costs and now we have extra time to write this adventure in our blog. This trip definitely has been a REAL adventure for us. We may have encountered many hurdles on our way but more importantly we encountered even more GREAT times…..Florence here we come!!!!!

Us at Rome Airport waiting for our next flight!!!

Our original Flight schedule from Rome to Florence (just to prove we are not making this up)

Our new Flight tickets for the 12:55pm departure