Happy 80th Birthday To My Mother !!

Just attended mass at St. Peters Basilica

Day at the Vatican Museum

Spanish Steps

Dinner at Chinese Restaurant

Trevi Fountain At Night

When In Rome

Rome if you want to.
Rome around the world.

I know it's suppose to be roam ... but I'm in Rome ... so I can say it however I want to.

Piazza Navona

Pantheon

Trevi Fountain

The Colosseum

Papal Wednesday

The Media

The Crowd

The Pope

Welcome To Rome !!

Arrived in Rome on time ~ 9:00 am !!

Customs & Luggage ~ 30 minutes !!

I finally have a FCO (international) stamp on my passport !!

Time to wait for hotel shuttle pickup at 10:00 am !!

Missed Flight ... ALMOST !!

On our stopover in Philadelphia ... we decided to eat in a nice restaurant ... the restaurant was somewhat a walk from our gate ... but since we had two hours until the next flight we decided to eat there.

So we enjoyed lunch at Sky Asian Bistro.

Decided to stopover at a Dunkin Donuts kiosk.

Then started to walk to our gate.

What surprised us was that we heard our names over the intercom ... that our flight was doing final boarding !!  I guess we didn't think of the boarding time being so close.  

We RAN ... found someone with a wheelchair to help my mom ... and then RAN over to the gate!

Made it just in time !!

We are Off to Europe !!!

Goodbye LAX !!  

Checking in at the US Airways was easy.  

However, I really miss the interaction with people.  

I didn't like having to "cheek-in" with a computer.