We've made it to Italy

We are at out hotel in Rome. Everything was pretty uneventful, aside from the suspicious-looking red substance on the wheels of Ronnie's suitcase.

An annoying thing about traveling to Europe is that you leave in the evening, get a couple of hours of sleep on the plane, then arrive at your hotel anywhere from 2-6 hours before check-in time. This is maybe okay if you slept a bit, but if you hadn't those are the longest 2-6 hours of the entire trip. This is a small hotel and it has absolutely no place to lie down somewhere. We found a couple of every uncomfortable chaise lounges in the fitness center in the basement, but I need to give Hotel FortySeven props because they hurried the housekeeping service up and got us into a very nice room in about 45 minutes.

We slept for about 3 hours and now it's 4:00 and we're kind of ready to go out. The first day is always kind of a waste, but since there's cool stuff just outside the window I'm sure we'll find something worthwhile.