Roman Holiday

The last couple of days have become a scavenger hunt. Let me explain. As an Italian citizen, Jessica wants to establish residency. This way she gets health insurance and other benefits. Rome is not that large, but they have a municipal building every 1/4 mile for residents in that area. We ended up going to the wrong one and having to backtrack to the right place. Once there, they were nice and it seems like the pieces are falling into place. Yesterday, I also dropped off my permesso paperwork at the post office. It means I have 90 days to figure out how to stay longer. There are a few options and I'm staying optimistic that something will work out. It's been rainy the last two days and we've had little luck site-seeing. We tried the Vatican Museum today but it closes at 1:30 during the winter. After having a quick lunch, we tried going to the Villa Borghese Gallery. It had the weird schedule of only allowing access every 2 hours on the odd hours (in other words 11, 1, 3, 5). Since we arrived at 3:30, it didn't make sense to stick around. One of these days we'll do something touristy. Until then, we'll visit government buildings, the grocery store, and the internet cafe.