Sleeping, souvenir shopping, laundry, Internet, packing, final day exploring were all activities that filled the last full day of our trip. It also rained hard this afternoon, but the rainbow after was beautiful. Four members of the class have already left for Paris. The rest of us had our final dinner together tonight. It was a delicious traditional Italian meal with homemade ravioli – stuffed with Ricotta cheese, homemade pasta – with Italian bacon, mixed cooked vegetable platter with Italian artichokes, a fresh green salad, and Tiramisu. Liliana brought everyone a rose shaped chocolate, and some fresh wild strawberries to try. It began to rain again as we finished dinner and most of us went back to the hotel in a downpour.
The majority of us left the hotel at 7:45 am for the airport to begin the trek home. We were supposed to go through terminal 5. This is not the terminal the Roman cab drivers are familiar with for Americans. The cab rides were supposed to be 40 Euros, some were some weren’t. Some students got dropped at terminal C and had to take a shuttle to terminal 5. Some of the groups were charged more than 40 Euros. Some of the cabbies argued with their passengers over the drop off point and the charge. The flight from Rome to Philadelphia was north-west and took us over the Italian Alps and what may have been Greenland, Newfoundland, and probably Canada. The first leg was 10 hours, the second leg was 6 due to stronger than normal prevailing westerly winds. Everyone was anxious to be home and surrounded by the familiar, Mexican food was high on the priority list.
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