Rome

We headed over to Rome to spend Thanksgiving. My cousin Rachel joined us there. We arrived Thanksgiving Day and went for dinner that night. Jamie told the people that owned the resteraunt to "make us happy" I'm not completely sure if we were happy, but they sure were when we paid our bill. After we ate we walked back to our apartment, and had dessert at the Gelataria acroos the street.

The next day we got up and went to the Vatican. We wanted to see the Sistine Chapel (which we did, after walking through A LOT of the Vatican) The guard there kept saying, "SHHHH! NO PHOTOS" in a really nasally voice. He was actually louder than all the people that were in there. After that we took the subway to see some Baths--we didn't get to see them because they were under construction. So, then we went to the Spanish Steps. After that we called it a night, and headed home. We took the two hour route from the subway, instead of the ten minute one...and stopped at the Gelataria.

On our final day in Rome we went to the Coloseum. First though, we went to the Hard Rock Cafe. I like going to the Hard Rock in Europe because the bathrooms are always clean and the toliets have seats. After being in Europe for a few years, those are really important to me. After lunch we went to the Colloseum, then saw the Palantine Hill (ruins). After that we walked through the Jewish Ghetto (that is not a ghetto anymore, but it used to be a flooded area that they forced the Jews to live in) all the way to the Pantheon. And then we walked the ten minutes home....that changed to ten more minutes every ten minutes. Confused yet?