Yesterday (Saturday) we woke up, ate breakfast, and headed off to start a day of shopping. I must mention that, before we left our hotel, mom and I did “purse drills” to prepare her for the day. The drills went something like “Mom!! I touched something dirty where is the hand sanitizer?!!??!” At which point she would rummage quickly through her purse, racing against time, and present the hand sanitizer as quickly as possible. We covered all the bases, including lipstick, euros, credit cards, maps, hand sanitizer, gum, etc. She passed with flying colors and things are going MUCH better with the purse. Before we left, we asked our adorable and oh-so-helpful hotel concierge (we love him!) how to get to the via del Sanino market, and he suggested we take the metro. Eeeek! So, armed
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