We had gone to the airport on Friday night to pick up our guests, Bob and Nancy Hunt from Arlington, Va. I had set the airport desk for National Rentacar, which is located in a tower across a bridge from the airport, as our meeting point. As we had arrived early, I ignored Lynne's advice, and decided to be cute and meet them as they exited the baggage hall. Somehow we missed them among the mob of arriving pilgrims and I had pocket dialed my phone to shut off the ringer, so I didn't receive their call from the National's parking garage where they had gone after they couldn't find us at the desk. We went back to the desk where I saw I had missed a call and we finally sorted things out. This morning sitting at the same table Bob and I could not get our phones, with their Italian SIM cards, to ring when we called each other but my phone rang when Nancy with her USA SIM card called me. Only in Italy.
On Sunday we watched the ceremony at St. Peter's on Italian TV and were surprised to find out that we missed the actual moment when sainthood was bestowed on the two ex popes. In the afternoon we visited a huge plant and flower sale at an agro Turismo near our appartment.
Today, all the museums were closed except one good one that we had already visited. So, Bob and Nancy headed into town to visit that museum and Lynne and I headed out to a golf course where we finished playing just before the heavens opened up. We had the weather in mid March that we expected to have at the beginning of May and now we are having the weather we expected to have in mid March.
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