Saturday, June 23, 2007

Day 10 - Leaving for Rome

Day10
- We woke up at 8:30 am, because we had to catch our 11:24 train. 9:30am we got to the breakfast area, where Ola did not eat an egg and had nothing but Tea.... Darrin Enjoyed an egg thoroughly infront of her mmh mmh mmmmmhhhh. During Breakfast we met another couple: Winda and Jake. Winda is a Singer from Belgium and Jake is an American that is living in Germany working for the army in transportation. After talking with them for 20 minutes we found out the would be in Rome in 2 days and gave us their hotel name and number. Since we like winging stuff we decided we may as well stay at the same place. We then headed out to the boats to catch a ride to the train station. While on the boat we decided to check the time, and realized because of being side tracked, it was now 11:00 and the boat ride takes 35 minutes. Which means we will be missing our train.... So Darrin came up with a plan to get off the boat at the beginning of Mainland Venice and RUUUUUN through the whole city in less then 13 minutes... All this while carrying our big backpacks and running through the directionless winding streets of Venice which you never know if your heading north, south, east or west..... Of course because of the egg Ola was not feeling well, so Darirn ended up carrying two backpacks 75% of the way while running (not jogging RUNNING)... All this to say, we amazingly caught our train while the engine was starting and two minutes to spare and find our seats.... The train ride was 3 and a bit hours before finally arriving in Rome. We then had a 45 minute treck to our hotel, which was not in the center of Rome as indicated, but in the middle of nowhere! Since Ola was sick and it was 4pm we decided to rest up and just start early the next day.... CNN I love you!

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