…but it wasn’t really

we were still wiped out and I think just burned out on seeing sights and all the little cultural nuances were even getting to us. We made it to St. Peter’s Basilica and the Pantheon, with lots of little things going wrong – paying too much for bad food, etc, but we made it back to the hotel just in time to go for a dip in the pool before it closed (it had been raining when we got to Rome, but it heated up to the 90s VERY quickly the next day!). Spent the rest of the day just relaxing, hoping (once again) that we’d get some sleep and wake up the next day refreshed and ready to enjoy our last day, and…