When in Rome...

So these past two (one and a half really) days in Rome have been a blast. It all started quite negatively though with us waiting for about 2 hours in the airport for our ride that never decided to show up... fortunately for us though, this provided us with our first metro experience over here. While waiting at the airport we were fortunate enough to have time to snap a nice group picture (Clemson flag missing, but that will be in later pistures!).

From Blogger Pictures

The first day in Rome was whirlwind, we dropped out stuff off at the hotel and hopped back on the metro after our first akward and confusing lunch order at a local bar (yep, most in and out places over here are called bars... and they all have a bar in them, fancy that!). The lunch I got was not quite what I was expecting, but I did learn how to pronouce bruschetta the correct way (brew-skay-tah).

The rest of the day we spent wandering through some gardens, and went to the Burghesse house (sp?) to look at some fantastic sculptures and paintings and the such. After the museo and dinner at a lovely place that we took up 90% of their seating (with 14 of us) we went wandering about and made it to the Trevi fountain pictured below:



At the Trevi foutain, we continued past traditions and tossed coins over our shoulder into the foutian. The first coin is to return some day to Rome. The 2nd coin is to fall in love and get married, and the 3rd coin is fr that person to be Italian!

Later that night after we got back I helped myself to a €1 beer from the mart across the street (tall boy style) and crahsed from exaustion while watching Space Cowboys in Italian. Twas a good night and a good first day.

Enter Friday (today) I woke up bright and early without an alarm clock (phone store was closed Thursday night when I went to get one) at 7am. This gave me plenty of time to get ready for the day and make it to breakfast at 8 when they started serving. The hotel we are staying in has a deal worked out with a bar on the corner (really they are ALL over the place) so we can get a free drink and pastry for breakfast. Boun!

We set off at 9am to hit up some churches (woo woo). The first church was Santa Maria Victoria where I spotted anawesome organ balcony (wont bore you all with the scupltures and paintings), so this one is for you Dad:



Next up (gotta make this quick now) here is a picture of me this morning in front of Santa Maria Pupullo (the 2nd church we went to). I got called °dapper° which is why I wanted to post this (sorry its sideways!).



Laslty this one made me almost die laughing... at the bag return point for the Vatican Museo (more on that later... maybe) I noticed this item that someone checked!
Hilarious!!