Home from Rome

21 wks pregant in front of Roman Forum

Well as I said in the previous post we're home from Rome! We had a great time. Jeremy was working but I got to steal him for two afternoons and every evening after 6:30, other than that I was mostly on my own. I thought I might go crazy with all the alone time but it was pretty restful. After the second day I figured out that lazing around the hotel until noon and going out all afternoon and evening was a good plan. So I slept in and read...I actually read a book and a 1/2!

Alot of great stuff was with in walking distance of our hotel...the colleseum and forum, trevi fount and spanish steps.. so I headed out to see all of that stuff. My feet got seriously swollen on the long plane ride there so I had to be careful to keep walking but not TOO much. I was probably the slowest fat lady waddling around the hordes of tourists, but it didn't much matter.

We ate alot of great food and luckily I only got nauseous a couple of times. Along with Barbara's help and some investigation into some very old credit card records, we found a great restaurant that we ate at when we were there 6 years ago. It was really great and off the beaten path from tourists, so we went there twice.

Overall it was a great trip...a little slower than our previous international adventures but just the right pace for me. Being without Tessa was strange at first but I got used to it, especially when I heard how much fun she was having with the Gs.

Oh and I started a new book....Twilight by Stephenie Myers. I'm just over 1/2 the way through but already give it two thumbs up!

Here's my little series of self portraits I tried to take while touring around by myself. It's really hard to get both your face and the attraction in the picture!
Colleseum

Roman ruins

Trevi Fountain