We arrived yesterday to our hotel in Rome - Mecenate Palace Hotel. The reservation desk took one look at our family and shook his head - "Rooms too small for your family". We sat there for a few minutes looking frazzled (a little hot and sweaty after walking ten minutes from the train station pulling all our bags - we are getting good at this!) Anyway - after telling us that the hotel was pretty much booked (and we did not want any of our children in a room by themselves) he told us that the Hotel had an 'apartment' that was not being used this week and he would put us over there for an upgrade of 60 euros...still not a bad deal since we had used Priceline and gotten such a good price on our hotel rooms. The apartment is very spacious - a little dated - but great! Yet another blessing on this trip! Also included in our deal is a wonderful breakfast served on the rooftop overlooking Rome - couldn't ask for anything better!
We got settled in yesterday and hit the streets to find a place to eat - stumbling across a great local restaurant L'Archetto Cavour. Had a wonderful lunch there and then set off to the Colosseum where we walked around for about an hour. It was now approaching 6 pm and everyone was hitting a wall. We strolled back to our hotel - got a GREAT gelato ice cream right downstairs from our apartment - checked out the roof top scenery and headed in for bed. Everyone was tucked in around 9 pm and got a GREAT night sleep! Each in their own bed.
It's Sunday morning and we just had a great breakfast on the roof top of the hotel...everyone is rested and ready to tour Rome. Will try to post more photos...Love and blessings to all!
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