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Roma

Sorry for no updates, but the Bed and Breakfast we are staying at has no internet. I was so desperate to listen to the AUBURN game last night that I was ran around the building we are staying in until I was able o find an unsecure wireless network. So yeah I’m leeching in Rome. Lol . Anyway, the first night we went to the Coliseum and the roman forum. They were both awesome. The Coliseum was slightly better than Jordan-Hare, jk. It was cool and strange at the same time to see where all the gladiators got ready and then where they fought and died. Not to mention the Romans also fed the Christians to lions. For being soooooo old it was well persevered. I think it was finished in like 80 A.D. CRAZY!!!!!! I mean there was still steps to the upper levels. I over heard a guy telling someone that back when it was new everything was covered in marble and porcelain. It would have been a spectacle to see. After coming home we ate and went to Trevi fountain.
Ive never heard of Trevi Fountain before this , but I’ll never forget it now. Its by far one of the coolest things Ive seen. Im going to post a picture of it because words don’t do it justice. While there we paid a guy from India to take a couple of pictures of us. Normally I would have told someone like him to F- off but he did give Stephanie some great advice about her camera and the flash; so I mean it was worth it. I finally got a good night’s sleep without Ambien, so I felt great the next day. (I cant wait to be jet lagged at work next week!!!!!)
We went to the Vatican Museum, which houses the Sistine Chapel and countless works of art, on our second day. The Vatican has been home to the Pope since like the 1300’s, I think (but I found out today that the Pope has his summer house in the Swiss Alps, lol, and that’s why he wasn’t at mass today). It took us 3 hours to see everything in the Vatican Museum; we even got to send some stuff from the Vatican Post Office. I mean you have to send something from the Vatican Post Office b/c its such a small country. After the Museum we went into St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, where the Pope does his addresses. It was neat to see all the statues of the Saints in the square. That night we went to the Spanish Steps; they are a bunch of steps that connect to big streets here in Rome. Not bad for a bunch of steps.
Today, our final day in Rome, we went to St. Peter’s Basilica. That’s where the Pope gives his sermons. We were there during Sunday mass, one of the lesser guys was leading it. Still, it was cool to be inside the church while they had mass. After walking around we went to the top of the dome, just like we did at Dumo. And just like Dumo it was scary, yet breath-taking. This time we had to climb almost 600 steps, which doesn’t seem like that much but please believe me that it was! It was like the actual “Stairway to Heaven”. Partly cause it was sooo long, partly b/c I thought I was going to die before I got to the top. Now we are waiting for the rain to stop so that we can go to the Pantheon without getting soaked. The Pantheon is an old church from what I gather. An old church far away from any subway station L. Tomorrow its off to Naples and the ruins of Pompeii. And hopefully the sexy beaches of Sorrento!!!! Wish us luck!!!!