Augh! This is good screaming!

I reserved our tickets to Rome last night. I need to mail in the vouchers and pay the balance (it was a tiny bit more than our vouchers covered) yet, but things are definitely underway. We’ll be going in March. Somehow I thought the person on the phone would be able to take the voucher numbers and settle it that way, but I have to send them in certified mail. Weird.

We have a 7-hour layover in Stockholm. I never expected that I would come to know the Stockholm Arlanda airport so well, but after another long layover there waiting to catch a flight to Oslo, I know it inside and out (actually, that’s not true; I only know it inside). It’s a very nice airport. It’s very clean and bright and spacious, with lots of pale wood and glass.

I was doing some reading last night, and even though Rome isn’t the cheapest city in the world, it sure looks like it in comparison to Norway. You can get an all-day transportation pass for just a little over 3 Euros ($4 USD or so) that allows for unlimited rides on the Metro, bus, and tram systems. A single tram ride in Oslo cost about that much.

Yippee!

The trip to Rome is, unofficially, our last hurrah as DINKs (double income, no kids). It will be all about drinking wine, seeing tons of art and architecture, and eating grown-up food.