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Today was a travel day, and all went smoothly from that perspective - the rain let up for us to walk to a taxi stand with all our stuff and then our train was on time - we had 4 seats with a table between them for our 1.5 hour ride to Florence. When we arrived we were only a 10 min walk from our hotel.

But the day was really rough. I think my anxiety around traveling with all our crap on a train meant the girls fed off that and were not listening, talking back, arguing over who got to ride in the stroller (answer - no one, I carried the darn thing from the train station to our hotel. Seriously considering leaving it here - I want it for getting through the airports when we get home, but otherwise it is definitely not good to have here). I lost my patience a lot as did Jeff. 

We relaxed in the hotel room for a while when we got here and fhen left around 5 to find dinner. We were spoiled in Rome city center with everything open all the time, several restaurants we found here close after lunch and don’t open again until 7. We wandered across the bridge from our hotel and came up empty for restaurants , but found a playground! The girls played for probably 45 min, even through a rain shower. 

We found a place for dinner back on our side of the river - the first night we’ve eaten indoors other than the night we got rained on! Jeff had gnocchi and I had lasagna. Lauren had a bowl of fresh pineapple (off the dessert menu) and Abby actually ate some of my lasagna. Then we found a market for bananas and snacks. And then a gelataria near our hotel. 

Tomorrow we head further to the city center to walk around - see the duomo and other sights and hopefully find anothe park. Sunday we have tickets to a museum with interactive stuff for the girls. Monday morning we train to Venice. 

Breakfast included at our hotel here! I’ve been shockingly eating nothing for breakfast for a week, the girls eat bananas with peanut butter and they are tired of them. Everyone is dreaming of Kix and pancakes - no idea what to expect tomorrow.

Wish us sweet dreams (all in one room!), hearty breakfast, more patience, and some playgrounds tomorrow. 

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Mike said…
Pancakes or waffles sounds good for breakfast.
October 27, 2023 at 10:05 PM
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