Well, our Rome trip was a bust...soooo disappointing! Without reinventing the wheel, I've copied the events from Danielle's blog...she did a fine job explaining the details. So in Dani's words...here's what happened.
So today was a lazy day to start out with... Bren and I just got up and got around and finally packed up and got ready to head to ROME! Our flight was at 6:55p so we left for the airport around 4 as it's about an hour away and not too huge so that would give us plenty of time. We got there, parked, had a potty break and then Bren thought she left her phone in the car. She went all the way back out and came back because it wasn't out there... it was in the purse she left with me! So then we headed upstairs to the departures gate. We scanned the departure board but didn't find our flight so we headed over to the information and they told us that our airline, Ryanair, flies out of ANOTHER airport! Can you believe it?!? Tiny Venice has 2 airports! So they tell us it's 30 min away so we run to our car, speedola to the airport, parking about 40 min before our flight. Run in and there's nobody at the Ryanair counter. So we head over to the ticket lady and she tells us... Sorry, boarding is closed. WHAT?!? It closes 40 minutes before flights and we got up there about 30 min before so they wouldn't even let us try to catch it... just S.O.L.! So we get this sick feeling in our stomachs for many reasons:
*Flight tickets
*Hotel
*Missing Rome
*Etc, Etc
But after trying to decide whether to cancel, take the overnight train, or other ideas, we decided none of those would be safe and for sure so we cut our (well Bren's) losses and headed home. We just couldn't believe that 10 minutes separated us from home and Rome... crazy! On the way back (1.5+ hrs) we chatted about what we had learned from the mishap and basically debriefed... we were both pretty sick over it all. How quickly plans can be shot down right?
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