In early February I went to Rome with 7 other girls and had a great time.
The first day we were there we went to go see the Vatican city where along the way we were roped into taking a tour with a company, which was actually a great idea. Our tour guide was this guy from Canada, who reminded me a lot of my uncle wes actually, and had a very dry sense of humor, to the point when we all couldn't tell if he was joking or not. Little fact about the Vatican, although it is it's own country, you DON'T need your passport to enter. I had mine just in case.
So we wandered around the Vatican with our guide and saw an abundance of wonderful art, even got lectured about how they built the pyramids (I don't know why this had anything to do with the Vatican) and saw all the statues that one pope castrated. They have leaves instead of private parts now.
Another fact about the Vatican, Angel's and Demons was NOT filmed there, they wouldn't have anything to do with it. The movie was filmed on a green screen.
We wandered around the inside of St. Peter's basilica and paid 5 euros to climb to the top of it, which was my best workout of the last 3 years. It was intense, but the view of the city was worth it. Climbed back down with shaky legs, went and found some pizza and chilled the rest of the day.
The second day of Rome was the Colosseum and the Roman Forum, which was super cool. It was raining pretty hard that day so there were all these men that were trying to sell umbrellas to tourists on the street and my friend Yena was talking to a guy trying to sell her the umbrella and the cops came by and the guy took off like a shot, leaving Yena with the umbrella she never paid for. She didn't know what to do and asked the cops if she could keep it and they were like, "go ahead". All of the good stuff happens to Yena :)
So we spent a lot of time in the Colosseum just looking around and walking and taking jumping pictures in front of it. Then we went around the Roman Forum which is just a bunch of really well preserved ruins you could walk on and around. Very cool. After this we went and got more pizza, mine was spinach and tomato which was AMAZING. I want to go back to Italy if only for the pizza and that's all I will eat. Screw gelato, it's all about the melted cheese on bread.
The same day we went to the Trevi fountain as well which was my favorite part of the entire trip, it was really cool.
Ate gelato near there and then went to the Pantheon, which I wasn't terribly impressed by. It's just a big building that you walk into and there's a hole in the top of it.
Since it was terribly rainy we went back to the hostel and went out to dinner at a restaurant nearby. I had been there the night before with Yena and another girl named Anna, and the food there was great. It's too bad I already had the best pizza of my life before walking right in. When we walked in the next night with everyone the waiter was like "I missed you!" to which I jokingly replied "I missed you, too!" and he hugged me. He wasn't as creepy as I though Italian men would be.
In my hostel room there was an Austrian man who seemed nice and wound up going to dinner with me and my group and to our surprise, he was actually the biggest douche ever. My favorite quote about him was from Anna, "congratulations, he was douchier than an american fratboy".
We went and got drinks after that and the next morning, I woke up to see the Austrian guy standing in the middle of our room, wearing only a thong. Forever imprinted in my brain.
We went to the spanish steps the next day and walked around and then went home to Prague where it was too cold for my taste.
I want to go back to Italy.
