Upcoming Travels.

It won't be long until I'm off to Rome with the boy. The excitement is really starting to build so I thought I'd better write a blog post to let all of this energy out safely.
Although the idea to go to Rome has been in the pipe lines for months, we didn't get round to organising anything until last month. We booked flights that get us there early on a Friday and take us home late on a Monday. So although we have 3 nights there, we get the best part of 4 days.
I feel so grown up having this holiday. I think that's partly down to the number of envious adults who have gushed about how lovely Rome is and how we'll have such a nice time there. It feels like a grown up place to visit. So grown up in fact, I feel bad that I'll be going and drinking no wine. It's a grown up place where you have nice food and nice wine, surely? But I don't like wine. And I figured it isn't France, it's not the wine capital of the world, it's just a strong competitor. So maybe I can refuse the wine and not feel like I'm missing out on part of the culture.
We know the general tourist things we'll be doing. We're close to the Vatican, we want to see the Colosseum we'll head over to the Trevi fountain. We'll be the typical tourists (fancy new camera in hand!). And we'll do a lot of walking and find cafes and ice cream and restaurants and shops along the way. It will be lovely, we don't mind that our plans aren't fully mapped out.
One problem is mother. She has this habit of Googling and checking out everything. Really it's quite ridiculous. She does it for my house hunting sister who has already searched through her options, she'll look up restaurant menus when she knows she'll be going and she has a whale of a time using google Earth. Me and Joe aren't stupid, we have looked into our trip. We've looked at our hotel on a map, we've seen pictures and we looked at the reviews on Trip Advisor. And that was after looking at a lot of other options and deciding why others weren't right but this one was. We're happy with that. I don't want to over examine it and build up expectations or ruin surprises. But my Mum wants to look at street view and check the street out, I dare say she's been checking out travel and a millions reviews too. I don't see the point and I don't know what I'm meant to say when she tells me "it looks like it's on a busy street, so that's good." I want to find out these things when I get there, I don't want to hunt down every detail before hand.
And so, with that little rant out of the way, I shall carry on and be excited about our trip. And to distract me from the seemingly long wait I have birthday celebrations too!