Continued the trip last week with a quick four day hop over to Rome. Flew NY-IAD-ROME for slightly over $200...we had jumped on this in February when the fare was temporarily out there. The flight down to IAD was noneventful - it was on a CRJ with those awful windows. We were late an hour due to weather, so we ended up with about an hour connection in Dulles. Just quick enough to buy a burrito and then head onboard the 777 to Rome. We were unable to get seats until online check-in, I was able to then get a twosome in the very last row of the plane, I believe row 42.
It was a good flight over, just over 8 hours, channel 9 was on so we got to hear some interesting ATC. Food was bad, other than the brownies, which the flight attendant was kind enough to get about 5 of for us.
Upon arrival in Rome we zipped through immigration (you just wave your passport and look through, I had to request a stamp.