To Rome and Away!

Several of you have asked about our flights to Rome.
On September 8, 2009, our family took a flight to London on British Airways. We took off at 5:25 pm and landed at about 1:30 am.

Our section of the airplane had three rows of three seats each. Each person had a small TV placed on the seatback in front of you. The crew gave us a pillow, blanket, headphones, and package containing a little toothbrush and toothpaste, socks, and a mask to block out the light while you were sleeping.

We all watched a movie of our choice. I watched Night at the Museum 2, Battle of the Smithsonian. Then a flight attendant brought us dinner. After that, I slept for about three hours. When I woke up, we all received breakfast and watched an interactive map on the TV to watch the plane land in London. We landed in London at about 6:30am London time (1:30 SB time). After that, we got on another plane to Rome. This plane had two rows of three seats each. We took off about 12:40 and landed at about 4:00 Rome time (10am Wednesday SB time). In Rome, a man met us with a van and took us to our apartment.

-Paul

Answers to questions: There is a TV. See the photo of the living room. The TV is in the right hand corner. It's just like a regular TV. We have a satallite, and a DVD player. However, everything is in Italian and we have been so busy, we have hardly watched TV.

No pool. Not a pool in sight.
The city is very large. We will try to take a photo for you to see. We haven't been to the Colesium yet. We will take lots of photos when we do. Food - we are eating a lot of pasta with bread. They even have Barilla pasta here. We are also eating lots of fruit and vegetables from the fresh market in the piazza nearby. We have had pizza a few times. I will have to write an entry just on pizza.