When in Rome?

We were all pretty excited about going to Rome, especially for the Colosseum. If you can imagine, there is a lot to do in Rome, I think we did a pretty good job at getting most of it in. I wont list everything we visited, but we did go inside the Colosseum and took an audio guided tour. It was interesting and it was easy to picture what was being said because of Gladiator. We also went to the Fontana di Trevi and threw a coin in for good look. Over the right shoulder or it doesn't work, I think its the first good luck trick that we did right so far. We obviously went to Vatican City, which was quite impressive, we were even lucky enough to see the Pope. I would say he was about 10 feet away in his sweet ride. It was kinda cool, and since we didn't understand (or really care) what he was saying we were able to get in a shorter line to get into the Vatican museum, which also led us into the the Sistine Chapel. Unfortunately we were allowed to take pictures (even though everybody was), but it was quite beautiful. Now we've seen works from all the ninja turtles, Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo and Leonardo. We also went into St. Peters Basilica, which is the biggest in Europe for sure, maybe the world!

We also met some pretty cool guys at our hostel. We played cards with them while drinking wine, and hung out for most of the night. They even joined us for our Vatican City tour. Although it was hard looking at art work with 6 people so we got separated, and by chance met back up in the line to the Basilica.

On one of the days, we took a day trip out to Pompei, it was pretty neat city because it was covered in ash when Vesuvius erupted, keeping it in near perfect condition. Some of it was kind of creepy because it preserved things so well, that you could make out folds in the peoples clothing from almost 2000 years ago. A weird man tried to give us a tour, and we politely told him we weren't interest, so he tried to make us feel stupid. Good try, now we really don´t want to take your tour. Our train ride to Pompei took longer than we expected so we didn't get to go up the volcano, but we really wanted to. I suppose it was a blessing in disguise, it would have cost a lot of money to do the city and the mountain.

Thats all I got for Rome.
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