I left Chicago at 1pm central time. After an hour and a half flight, I joined the group in Washington DC, where to our dismay, we discovered that our flight had been overbooked. It looked as though we would have to take a later flight, but as it turned out, all but two of us were able to get on our original flight. Garrett and Anna volunteered to go separately (with compensation, of course) and they joined us in Orvieto the next day.
The flight was about 8 hours long, and I tried in vain to get some rest during it. Airplane seats are just not comfortable. Matt Doll, who runs the program along with John Skillen, met us at the airport and showed us to our bus from Rome to Orvieto. We left DC at 6pm eastern time and arrived at 8am Italian time (which meant we were starting our day in the middle of the night). It was exhausting, but we managed to make it through the day.
When we arrived in Orvieto, we found that much to our dismay, we were required to carry our luggage up a hill to the Monastery. After hours of traveling, we were exhausted, and it wasn't a pleasant job. We were met in the courtyard by three little kids, all eager to meet us.
After we were settled into our rooms, we walked to lunch where we were met by a vibrant energetic family, who would be our servers for the next few months. The rest of the day was spent unpacking and getting settled, followed by dinner at 8. And there was nothing like a cup of gelato to finish off a wonderful day in Orvieto!
The view from the back courtyard of San Paolo
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