Totally on board for this trip! So great that you had an uneventful flight and that DH was "cool" with you leaving.
The pictures of Rome are amazing, but I am sure that the church was fabulous. I can't even imagine!
Great start to your TR.
Cute room too - except for the tiny shower. Oh well!
So happy to see you, Mary Ellen! Paxton was just a tad bit too cool with us leaving, but I guess that's a good thing. He didn't start asking us when we were coming home until about day 10!
Pictures will never do the churches we saw justice. They are amazing works of art entirely.
That tiny European shower, ugh! But if that was only the worst of our troubles, I'd say that's pretty good.
I'm here!!!
Wait...how is DS almost 4?
GELATO. Oh, I miss it.
I love the food service on international flights. I slept the whole time and woke up with a croissant in my lap. Beautiful.
The pictures are absolutely gorgeous! I wish we had done Rome as well. I will just have to live through your pictures!!
Courtney!!! So happy to see you!
I know, right?!
Where does the time go? Less than a month until his birthday!
Gelato was very high on my list of favorite things from this trip.
We averaged at least one gelato stop per day, but oftentimes more than that.
It was so great going there. Sleep a couple of hours, served a hot meal; sleep a couple more, here's a snack; sleep a few more, breakfast! It was fantastic! And actually all pretty tasty.
Rome ended up being our favorite city. We are very "busy" people when it comes to vacation and don't like a lot of downtime, especially when we are going somewhere so far away that we might never be back to. So Rome was definitely our pace!
I can believe it. But if I count my Go Pro Time Lapse stills, that puts me around 20000. But I think Dustin out-clicked me on the DSLR.
Holy moly!
Oh yes girl! I'm so here I loved those pics during your trip! You totally got me wanting to this and Mu sister is so into to so hopefully one day!! Ok I'm going back to read!
OOOH, I hope you get to do this trip, or really any ABD trips because if the rest of them are even slightly as amazing as this one was, then I'm sure they're all fantastic!
Awesome start! So great to relive our visit through the TR, and can't wait to see new things too! We did a cooking class in the Trastevere neighborhood (and also did a walking tour of Rome on our first night there! It was a great way to keep our minds in check even if our bodies really wanted to go to bed!).
I still can't imagine leaving Aria for it, but it sounds like you had an amazing time nonetheless.
Can't wait to read more!
Welcome aboard, Lauren! So happy that you're here!
The food tour was just what we needed to keep us busy and keep us from going to bed way too early and getting our schedule messed up. And bonus, we got delicious food and great company! A cooking class sounds like it would be tons of fun! We really enjoyed Trastevere, it's such a cute little neighborhood and somewhere we might not have visited otherwise.
Leaving Paxton for 12 days was gut wrenching and I agonized over it for such a long time, up until the minute we left. But I have to say, although I had a few moments that made me cry a little from missing him, it was not as horrible as I thought it would be. I think it helped a lot that he was always in good spirits when we talked on Skype or FaceTime (or he didn't want to talk at all because he was too busy having fun!) so I knew he was doing fine without us.
Oh I am SO here! Loved seeing all your pictures on Instagram!
Your room looks nice, despite the tiny shower!
Beautiful pictures of Rome!
Glad you enjoyed them! I had to remind myself to take pictures sometimes because I usually leave the camera work to DH, but it was fun taking some just for social media.
All of our rooms were beautiful! Besides that tiny shower, I can't say anything bad about any of the accommodations on this trip. We had beautiful rooms in amazing locations. We really got spoiled!
Yay! Jumping in on this one.
Your pictures on Instagram are gorgeous. Can't wait to hear about the trip.
Thanks, Kelley!! I'm glad to have you along for the ride!
Can't wait to hear the rest!
Thanks!
