October 15

Had a bit of excitement today.  Our friend, Nancy was picked up for her trip to the airport to fly home.  I went to the copy place to make a copy of my signature for e-Filing my taxes and sent it in, got back to the apartment and Andy was hanging out the window waiting for my return.  She shouted down that Nancy and I had each other’s passports!  I grabbed a cab and we headed to the airport.  Of course, in town the traffic was terrible, but once we got on the freeway, he floored it.  Got to Terminal 3 and Nancy and the Airline Lady were waiting…airline lady grabbed her passport and ran in to finish checking her in…she had 15 minutes til the desk closed and 45 minutes til flight time…so she made it!  We were both nervous wrecks…trying to look and act cool.  One nice thing, the cab driver and I conversed in Italian the whole way and it seemed to flow for me.  He spoke slowly, so I understood what he was saying.  He said one time he picked up a couple and delivered them to their hotel where the man realized he had left his jacket on the plane, so back to airport to get the jacket and then back to the hotel.  Came back to apartment, had lunch and going to collapse now!  Excitement over.  We leave for Orvieto tomorrow.