Lost Luggage Saga Continues

Well, we are now on day 4 and still no luggage. When we realized we didn’t have our luggage on the first day, we had to rent a car seat for our rental car since that was one of our pieces of luggage. So, we get a phone call from the Florence airport stating that they received one piece of luggage and we could come pick it up… What piece of luggage did we get?? The car seat, of course. We are now traveling with two car seats, but no clothes or other belongings. We drove to Camp Darby today, a U.S. Army base outside of Pisa and bought a clean outfit from the PX. So, we will be nice and clean tomorrow. :o) We are driving into Rome tomorrow so we should be able to pick up our luggage since they have assured us that it is now sitting in the Rome airport.
Our shopping spree today took up a big part of our day as well as driving down to Perugia. I have been told that it is the chocolate capital of Italy. We haven’t seen much of it since we didn’t get here until tonight. We are staying in a hotel on top of a hill in the middle of nowhere. It took us forever to find it because it was a very confusing city to find. When we finally got the right directions, we drove up this winding hill forever and started to wonder where the heck we were going. Then the road pretty much dead-ended into this hotel with a view of the city below. There is only one other car in the parking lot, so we are pretty much one of the only guests of the place. We have nice big rooms and a towel warmer in the bathroom. :o) We didn’t want to drive back down the hill to eat, so we ate in the restaurant next door. It was a really fancy place with no other customers. We had our choice of tables and never saw another soul besides our waiter. It is funny that we are here away from other people, especially since it is a pretty nice hotel and such a nice restaurant. I found it only because it was one of the cheapest hotels when I did a search on the Internet. We wish we could stay here a little longer. We leave for Rome tomorrow where we will be for the remainder of our trip.