8th day and time to leave Rome

Saturday 2/27 The wake up call did not come (again!) but Randy woke up at 6:10 anyway. Breakfast at the hotel - and we were tired of it by now! Mario drove us to the airport (cost 74,000 lira, paid to the hotel). We bought soda and candy and around 9:30 we got on the plane, even though there were police at the boarding point. We never learned why they were there but nothing bad happened. We did had to sit on the plane almost an hour because another plane was waiting to be towed off the runway. Glad we weren't on that plane! We left around 10:30 and got to New York by 2:30 (6 hours behind Roman time). We walked over to check out the terminal next door because it had more stores, got Pizza Hut pizza and picked up some Evelyn and Crabtree lotion. At 6 pm we left for St. Louis. The movies were The Mighty, Men in Black, and Ronin (again). Got home, picked up Runt, and finished the day around 10 pm.