Our First Day

Our flight was very smooth, and everyone made a good faith effort to sleep a few hours. Upon arrival, it took us an hour to get our bags. During the wait, Briantey learnrd to say, "if you have a white tag, exit to the right," in Italian.

We met our tour guide, Gabriella, who explained that Rome had been snarled by the first real snowstorm since 1985. Despite my best efforts to the contrary, some of our group dozed off on the slow ride--through narrow streets on a gigantic bus--to town.

Lunch warmed and woke us up. Kids had their first tastes of prosciutto and giant bites of mozarella. Big plates of pasta with fresh tomatoes and seafood.

Afterward, we stabbed Benjamin at the newly excavated site of Caesar's assassination.