YAY! I am so very proud of my husband and he did in fact win the Cresset Sales award with his company which means in 8 weeks we are heading to Rome!! We submit our itinerary for our excursions this Friday and I am certain it will be a trip of a lifetime. I am still very apprehensive about leaving my little girls for so long, we plan to extend a day or two so the longest we will be gone is 9 days. They will be more than well taken care of with my Dad and his wife, however I have never been away longer than a weekend and my fear of flying intensifies it all, but I have to find a way to put my anxieties to rest because I know it is going to be amazing.
Our itinerary as it stands now is as follows -
The first few days of travel we are going to do something on our own...we are still up in the air on whether that will be Venice or Naples, but then we arrive in Rome July 29th. Day 1 in Rome consists of a walking tour near the hotel (The Westin Excelsior right in the heart of the city) and a welcome dinner. Day 2 will be a half day tour of Imperial Rome which includes the Colosseum, Spanish Steps and Catacombs. Day 3 is a day trip to Florence which is one of the things I am very excited about as it looks very beautiful from the research I have done. I am probably even more excited for Day 4 which begins with a Day trip to Pompeii and ends with a private tour that night of the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel (how amazing will that be!!), Day 5 will be a half day visit to the Villa Borghese, an art museum that I believe has quite a bit of Caravaggio's work on display. The rest of the day is ours to do some lesuirely site seeing and then a final dinner party that night. We leave back for home the next day! Absolutely everything is paid for from all our transportation, entertainment, food and lodging which has to be one of the best parts about it :) I am looking forward to being completely immersed in the history, culture and beauty of Italy that is for sure.
