Rome!

This week and weekend was so much fun!!

Tuesday we arrived in Rome around like 10:30, we got to the hotel like 11 ish...I think. We got checked into our room and grabbed a quick bite to eat before we were on our way to Saint Peters and the Vatican Museum for the day.

Of course the entire time we were in Rome it was rainy and gross outside! Except for Thursday when the sun came out for like an hour or two. Wednesday we went to the Pantheon, Castel Sant'Angelo, Spanish Steps (they were ok), St. Paul's Basiclica. Then randomly at night after we ate dinner...which we walked like every where in Rome to find dinner! We came across the Trevi Fountain. Which is I think more amazing at night because it is all lit up!!

You would think finding a place to eat at night in Rome would be easy right!...well think again...no so much. Well at least where we were it was not so. Plus we didn't want to spend a lot of money and we had to find pizza and pasta.

Our hotel that we stayed at was nice...it was a two star hotel. Which if you didn't know our ranking of stars and Europe ranking of stars is completely different. It was nice though! I was one of the few but still a lot of the lucky ones that got our bathroom in our room and didn't have to share with like 10 people. It was very nice though, except when you tried to take a shower the shower curtain did not do the best thing at keeping the water in the shower...it would still get all over the floor!

Also...in Italy... pedestrians have no right of way when it comes to crossing the street or anything dealing with cars and yourself. So I have become very good at just walking across a street even if a car is within 10 feet of me. You just go...or you will never get across. They do stop, they just don't stop to let you cross if you are waiting to cross the street.

Thursday...what a great and long day! We started our day at like 9. Which was not bad, because I was defiantly tired from the day before! Today we went to the Roman Forums, Palatine Hill, another church...that I don't remember the name to it. Some more Roman ruins, the Column of Tragan. Which is 100 Roman ft high, which is like 90 ft high in our standards because the Romans had small feet.

It did rain most of the time that we were here...which sucked because it made going out no fun. But we did have during the day mostly free of rain. Now...the greatest and most crazy, annoying... worst day ever! So Friday! We still had some stuff to see, so we were busy till like 1130. That was the plan...well we are getting ready in the morning and what is going on or yeah it is snowing! I don't mean Texas snow where it is small I mean like probably Colorado/Baltimore snow!!! Like these snow flaxes were hugh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Well then it stop snowing for a bit and it was just raining...so we were off to see a Theater, Circus Maximus, Hurcules Temple, another Temple, the major drain that they used in Rome to drain water out of the city that is still in use today and then last the Baths of Caracalla. Well it was snowing off and on all day..slowly starting to stick. Well it didn't get crazy till we got to the Baths. Oooo also...I am freezing, cold, my shoes are wet and our prof is still going!!! Also...I have a hole in my big jacket now, luckily a small one, but still!

Well..when we got to the Baths...we were inside for like 7 min and then all of a sudden bam!!!!!!!!! It starts snow blizzarding outside!!!! Also by this point we all want to leave because we are all freezing cold, wet and miserable. Finally when that blizzard hits we can leave. So we are just running out of the Baths because we are cold and just want to get warm. Luckily for us there was a metro station just like a 5-10 min walk by us. We were so cold though!!

So Friday was an interesting day to say the least. After we got back to the hotel we grab our stuff and were off to Sorrento and Capri for the weekend. All of us hoping that it would be Sunny with Blue skies!!

Ciao!