On my way to Italy...

Trip Start Aug 04, 2008
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Trip End Aug 19, 2008


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Monday, August 4, 2008

The 4th started out really really early with a 4:30 pick-up...got to the airport and on to the first flight with relatively issues.  Really wanted to stay up and try and cut out the jet lag from the get go, but I pretty much lasted about 30 minutes into the flight before I fell asleep, waking up maybe 90 minutes before landing in Philly.

The 3 hour stopover in Philly was relatively easy as well since I got to gab on the phone with Hannah for the entire time.  That's definitely the downside of international layovers; no cell phone reception to call people and chat!

So, the real tiring part about traveling started with the leg from Philly to Rome.  It started out promising with a non-full flight and an empty seat next to mine.  Unfortunately, it was short lived.  Some big-ass Sicilian/Italian mom wearing LEGGINGS decided to smush herself next to me so her obese son (who looked like a fat-version of Ralphie from A Christmas Story) and so in an attempt to get some room I moved towards the back, relinquishing my window seat (and potentially could've-been-mine empty seat!). 

Unfortunately, the three empty seats that I re-located to had armrests that wouldn't raise (because it was a 3-row-er in the back) and so I couldn't stretch out like I was hoping to.  Also, for some reason two Italians decided to play cards while I was trying to sleep for like 2 HOURS! WTF! At any rate, after watching two movies without sound (too cheap to spring for the $5 headset), attempting to sleep, and listening to the rest of Last Lecture, I arrived in Rome (2am East Coast time or 11p CA time) pretty much exhausted, cranky, and a little nervous since I'd never been to the Rome airport and still had to make my connecting flight with my 5 hour layover in Rome.
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