We’re In Italy!

6/19/2010, Saturday

We had a very rough night on the plane during the 8 hour flight from New York to Pisa, Italy. Nathan didn’t sleep at all, and Mary thinks she may have slept an hour, or none at all. Josh and I may have each slept a few hours, but it was hard to tell. It was very uncomfortable, as the seats didn’t recline very far back (on a Boeing 767), and space was tight in the cattle compartment. (Actually it was a very large plane, with 7 seats across and 2 aisles in the back of the plane where we were).

We arrived in Pisa on time, a little before noon, but it was raining so hard the pilots passed by on the first landing and flew out over the ocean again to wait for the storm to lighten up. We finally landed a little after noon, local time, and with a 9 hour time difference between here and home in Idaho, so that would be about 3 am for our body’s time. We were wasted.

We took a taxi to our Hotel Bologna, checked in, and we have a spacious, high ceiling room with 2 baths (one toilet), and 3 beds. We’re on the second floor where the windows open up to a narrow street – it sort of has a feel like pictures of New Orleans that I have seen. Our windows have shutters that open up across a narrow one-way street.

After showers (for all) and naps (for some), we walked through narrow streets, looking in shops and picking up book that are all in Italian. For dinner Mary and Nathan got tortellini and Josh and I got real Italian pizza – it’s really different!

Then we walked around more and got hand made Italian ice cream. It was great!

It’s now about 8:30 pm local time here now (11:30 am Pacific/Idaho time), and our body-clocks are still a little screwed up.

I’ll try to post some pictures on this Blog.

Arrivederci!

Todd