Our travels have continued. The good and the bad of them. I like ending on a high note so lets start with the bad.
Our trip out of Orlando started like any other day. The flight was delayed by 45 minutes but hey, our layover was 4 hours in Dusseldorf so who cares. The flight was without incident (which is how I like them).
We landed in Dusseldorf and were both exhausted so we found a quite area for a 1 hour nap. We got up went through passport control to get ready for our next leg. The gate was listed as B – yep no number following (not a good sign). You guessed it the flight was canceled – as we mentioned on the last post, Air Berlin had declared bankruptcy so not too surprising. We were told to collect our bags and go to customer service for
them to rebook us. The line was stupid long, Universal Studios at Christmas long, people who I spoke to at the front were already in line for five and a half hours. Not fun. After a LONG wait we were rebooked 24 hours later and had to spend the night in Dusseldorf. Not a terrible thing if you hadn’t prepaid for your room in Rome as well. We decided to make the most of it. Only challenge was we only planned to be in Rome for 3 nights and this surely put a damper on our Italian plans. We did finally make it into Rome after another 1.5 hour delay on our rebooked flight approximately 27 hours late.
Now for the good – Rome. Even though we had an abbreviated trip we had a 
fantastic time. Missy and I haven’t been to Rome in almost 7 years so we were excited because we love the city. It did not disappoint. We made sure to go to the Forum as Missy has wanted to go on each of her 2 previous trips but one thing or another has always gotten in the way. 
TIP – even though closing times are posted you are not allowed entry after 1 hour prior to closing. For the rest of our time we 
went to some of the Roman highlights.
We are now in Johannesburg, South Africa. We are leaving for the bush tomorrow morning on our adventure tour though the country. We will have sporadic internet at best (apparently elephants don’t need Wi-Fi) so we will update when we can.