Moose Topples Over in Rome! HA!

Ok so those of you that know me, know that I'm not exactly the most coordinated person on earth and that I'm prone to tripping over my own feet at LEAST once a day, if not more! Well boy did I EVER do it in Rome immediately following my arrival from Florence...

Let me just start off by saying that when I travel, I'm carrying a TON of stuff! My big packpack that I have all of my clothes, shoes, and toiletries in weighs about 27-28 (ish) pounds, then I have my smaller backpack with my travel books and other random necessities that weighs another 10 pounds or so, and then a small bag that I carry with all of the souvenirs I've bought along the way.

I had just arrived at the train station and was trying to navigate around the train station, looking for Angela since she was coming to pick me up there. I was walking along a sidewalk across the street from the station and turned a corner not expecting there to be hardly ANY room on the sidewalk b/c of motorcycles and other bikes. I tripped over my own foot and b/c of all of the weight on my back and front as well, I toppled over and then onto the ground like a domino - HA! I had that sensation of it going in slow-motion and knowing that I had no control b/c of the excessive weight. I just kept thinking, oh God....the ground is disgusting and I don't want to cut myself open on anything. LOL!

Luckily there was an American couple and an Italian man that saw the entire thing, and they rushed over to help me up. With all of the weight on, I wasn't even able to pick myself up and they pretty much had to pull me up - it was HILARIOUS, although REALLY embarrassing!

I was OK (It's OK...I'm OK!), but I got a lovely scrape on my ankle that is still pretty red and gross looking. It's just another scrape to add to the list of battle scars I've received during my travels...HA!

Anyway, here's a pic of my "Roman scar." Notice the tan lines from my flip flops??? The Moose is actually getting tan! (In a Moose kind of way of course....I'm not bronze for crying out loud!) :-) I'm "flip-flopping my way through Europe" and trying to stay on two feet now....