There we were awake at 4am & even all the clocks set in advance didn't have to wake us. The hotel shuttle all ready for us at 5.30, friendly staff, no time for the breakfast but sent us on the way with a packed paper lunch bag 'grab n go'. Cute felt like we were off to school. The airport was so quiet that our booking in only took 10mins & we were ushered promptly through to customs check...so much for the 'grab n go'! anything to beat a queue! We left at 8am, 4 hours to Chicago, 3.5 hour transit, 8.5hours to Rome. (We arrived the next day at 8.40am to a sunny Rome. By the time we got to our apartment it was just on 24hours awake/journey time.) We noted the tornado signs above
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