Vacation 2018 - Italy & France - Day 1

Jumping into the way back machine here to tell you all about last January's vacation.  We are either smart or dumb to own a timeshare, but own one we do.  Every year we plan a big vacation and use our points and stay at some pretty amazing spots.  We've been to Maui, San Juan, PR and took a cruise from there; Malaga, Spain; Orlando, FL; Cabo, Mexico and Italy and France.  This post is about Italy & France.

In January, 2018 we planned a 10 day family vacation to Europe.   We booked a week at our time share in Soriano nel Cimino, Italy.  The timeshare was located about 60km north of Rome and it was charming!  We all booked our flights individually and met up in Rome at roughly the same time, although we were on the same flight out of Philly with Jessica.

JB decided to rent a car and in hindsight, it's a good thing he did or we wouldn't have had so many adventures and wonderful memories.

Once we were able to park, we set out on foot to see as much of Rome as we could.  Clearly, we saw the Fountain - and Eleanor wasn't so impressed.

We had a lovely meal in a tiny little sidewalk cafe where the owners brought Eleanor chocolate cookies and Gramps and Daddy at the chocolate off so Mommy was okay with her baby having sugar.

We wandered down alleys and had a race to see who could get there first - clearly I won!  

We stumbled upon this beautiful park.  Rome is filled with statues and the birds loved this beautiful lady. 

We pushed the stroller all over Rome and as you can see, Eleanor took a nap on Daddy while we all took a quick break. 

While January in Italy isn't idea vacation weather - it was wonderful.  There are some things I wish I had seen - the Vatican, but that just means we can go back again, right?