I'm here, I'm here! Time for bed.

Hi Friends! I'm in Rome and all is well (or will be once I end my 30 hour vacation from sleep). As soon as I get the wi-fi situation figured out at my hotel, I'll put up some pictures to prove it :)

I made a new friend on one of my flights yesterday. Her name is Maryssa, she is six years old and was on her way to Disneyworld with her grandpa and cousins. When I asked her if she thought there were going to be a lot of people at Disneyworld this week, she matter-of-factly informed me that, yes, there would probably be 40, maybe more, "and at least 33 families." We were watching out the window, having a very insightful conversation about how many more trees one can see from the sky, when she suddenly become quiet and I looked over to discover that she had succumbed to some kind of kiddie narcolepsy and was snoozing away. That was when her grandpa looked back sheepishly and admitted they had gotten up at 4:00 that morning.

She left a shoe print on my right pant leg after I told her that, yes, she could use me as a footrest (you all know how cramped it is sleeping in a Coach seat). The lady sitting next to me indicated that I could wipe the shoe print off easily once we got off the plane. Not for all the tea in China, I thought. That there is a good luck charm.