{adventures abroad} anniversary-moon III: rome

italy has always been really high up there on the europe list, for too many reasons to go into here {and honestly, do i need to?}. the hardest part was deciding which part of italy to visit first with our limited vacation time. fortunately the decision was made for us when a fare-watcher alert from travelocity arrived in my inbox one fateful october morning: "super cheap to rome! book now or regret it forever" or something like that. and the rest, as they say, is history...