a day full of surprises, but not the ones we thought

This was actually taken in
Florence,but I wanted to use it
for this post to honor family
meet-up day.

After we devoured the best pizza ever, we headed back to Rome via train and met up with the family. As I mentioned before, my husband and I were supposed to be a surprise, but we weren't; I guess we were the ones that were surprised. We moved into our Rome hotel and the family moved into their Rome apartment, which was located on the northern tip of Piazza Navona. That piazza is home to two magnificent fountains, the Fountain of Neptune and the Fountain of the Four Rivers. I didn't get any good shots of the fountains, which is why I am using a photo of the family instead. This was the day when our surroundings began to get really crazy. Naples was a city and we had a beautiful view, but it all seemed real. Rome (at least parts of it) were so massive and so mind-blowing they looked fake. I began feeling like I was on the set of a feature film and kept having to remind myself that what I was looking at was in fact reality, and not only was it reality - it was hundreds and hundreds of years old. I know I was feeling this way because again, this was my first time visiting Europe. Things began to get more real as the days passed...