ARRIVEDERCI ROMA

A shop window in Rome airport

We spent the day chasing the sun.  The seats were not horribly uncomfortable (we had a little knee room) and we were fed lunch and a late snack.  I watched 3 movies and read some.  An okay way to spend an entire day.  Rome to Philadelphia was 8 1/2 hours.  We went from 8:30 pm to 2:30 pm. by landing in Philly.  Already a long day, but we had more to come.

In Philadelphia we went thru customs, reclaimed our bags, re-checked them and went thru security again.  No problem- we had lots of time.

No movies were available on our flight from Philadelphia to DFW, so I read some more.    We had some turbulence on the way home, with the pilot coming on the speaker saying the wind/storm was so bad he might have to land somewhere other than DFW.   He said he'd let us know in 20 min or so.   He didn't get back to us, we did experience some uncomfortableness but before we knew it, we'd landed.


We waited for bags, and not one of our group's bags came on the ramp from below.  We waited and waited some more.  Finally someone went to talk to the person in the baggage claim area who seemed to be in charge.  She told our representative that our bags had been put on another plane and that plane had just landed in Houston.

The plane with our luggage was landing at another terminal in a while.  Our bus to take us to our cars at the Sr. Center was there and took us to the other terminal.  After a short wait, we all gathered our suitcases and got on the road to New York Avenue.


We got home about midnight-- having been up for approx 25 hours.

Good trip, lots of fascinating sights and interesting memories.