Italy or Bust!

Well, we finally made it to Italy and it was not an easy road. Kensley did very well on the flight which I was very happy about. Due to a series of unfortunate events on our layover in Paris, we missed our connecting flight to Rome and had to take a later flight. Stephen had to wait in the Rome airport for about 4 hours wondering what the heck happened to us. Then, when we arrived, we waited and waited for luggage that never came. We discovered later that our luggage was still in Paris and would be delivered to our hotel in Florence the next day. To make a long story short, we are going on 3 days with no luggage and are wearing the same stinky clothes we wore on the airplane. We have no clothes, no makeup, no brush, and no conditioner for my hair. My hair has beena complete rat's nest and took over 30 minutes for me to brush last night. We couldn't buy any new items that we needed because everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, was closed due to New Year's Day. Hopefully our luggage will be delivered tonight, minus a few pieces they still can't find. We are sitting on pins and needles wondering who will be the lucky recipient of their suitcase. To make matters even worse, Kensley has not adjusted well to the time change and has spent the last two nights screaming and crying all night long. We finally just turned the lights on and she started playing. We realized that she just wasn't tired. She woke up this morning at 4:30 screaming and woke all of us up. We finally just turned on the lights and sat in our hotel room waiting for normal day hours to arrive so that we could go to breakfast. The good thing about having nothing, is it takes nothing to get ready for the day. We just put on our same stinky clothes and walk out the door. They did give us an emergency kit at the airport that contained a t-shirt to sleep in and a toothbrush. We are trying to make the best of the trip even with all these shortcomings and have visited the Leaning Tower of Pisa and spent today in the historic part of Florence. Kensley is now sleeping in our hotel room, she is dead to the world at the moment, and me and Stephen are headed to the grocery store next door that is finally opened to see if they have any items that might our lives more comfortable. Hopefully things will start looking up for us. :o)