I am really learning some great info - thanks everyone. I think we will take our ATM card, but if the machine doesn't speak english, may just go to a bank, and carry some travelers checks and a combination of cards, cash, etc. My husband has a fanny pack, the new kind with the metal strip inside the strap, and I have a purse that has has the metal strap, which I will wear across my chest. We will definitely make copies of all our travel docs, usually do that anyway, and most of my travel books make a point to just NOT set anything down, even for a minute. I also read in Rome to walk away from the street and toward the inside of sidewalks. I think too that at both hotels we will check on safe deposit boxes for documents and stuff, as we don't want to just leave them in the hotel room, I worry about that kind of thing when we are in the US!