rome in picture format

so after greece us three went to rome. and i feel instead of boring people with stupid details that nobody really cares about i would try blogging in pictures (with captions, silly) and highlighting important parts and maybe a thought i have along the way. mainly the reason for this is because i have a big ambition of maybe doing two blogs tonight...we'll see.

danielle, myself, courtney and in front of the colosseum. we got a great deal on the photo. inside the colosseum...and then what do you know...there i am in front of the colosseum!!!!the trevi fountain. hands down my most FAVOURITE place in all of rome. i seriously could sit here for hours and days and the i could basically die here. it was so pretty. it's so crazy cause its just on the backside of a building, so you are walking down a street and then all of a sudden there is this gorgeous giant fountain!

here i am throwing in a coin. if you throw in one coin you will return to rome. if you throw in three than you are supposed to fall in love in rome. i only threw in one cause my italian isnt good enough. and because the only coins i had were large coins. you better believe i am throwing a twenty in that fountain!

me at the fountain at night with a rose that a kid from the hostel bought me...aww how sweet.the next day we went to the vatican! here i am doing the only cool pose one can do in st peter's square. we were kind morons cause we went on a tuesday and we didnt know this but it was planned that on wednesday the pope was gonna come out and wave his hand. uh oh. our bad. thats ok this way we avoided the crowds!

and i read in the papers today that the pope abolished limbo. can he do that?

we went and saw the sistine chapal and all of michelangelo's stuff. this is a painting that raphael (my favourite ninja turtle) did. it adorned the walls of a former dining room. huh go figure.

we did see the sistine chapel and it was really cool, really giant. i wasnt ready for all that. and by the time that i left my neck was hurting from looking up so much. oh the price you pay to view art.

some of the guards at the vatican....they know they look cool.after we were all vaticaned out we decided to walk home and while we were walking home we watched the clouds roll in, and the next thing we know we are in a freak hail strom. it was insane. but fun.

*also i forgot i saw where pope john paul II is burried. its really pretty. he is burried with all sorts of other popes in sorta a catacombe like basement. but he has flowers all over and a giant white block that has his name in it, and its too bad cause you cant take photos...otherwise i would have one. try googling it if you are really interested. but you probably arent.

are final full day in rome we walked around and wrapped up things he hadnt done yet, so we went to a museum where we saw all sorts of really famous sculptures (or so i was told) the only one i recognised was this one:

the statue of romlus and remus with their mama, the she wolf. i am sure you all know the story. sons of jupiter raised by a she wolf then romlus killed remus to have a great city...hence rome. there is more to it but thats the jist if you are looking at the screen and have no idea what i am talking about.i dont know why i keep putting this photo up, i think probably because its the only picture that i have with my hair down. hm. right now my hair is in hair limbo (not long and not short) but since limbo has been abolished i dont know where my hair is.the best gelato ever (minus festival del gelato...which by the way whenever people told me they just came from florence i would ask if they went to f.d.g or if they were headed that way i told them EXACTLY where it was. a kid at my hostel told me he was going there next, and he had a map of florence so i grabbe a pen and circled the spot for him. i should have gotten his email or something to see if he really went there or not) for 2 euro, AND it came with whip cream!we walked up to a park and saw the view of rome, here i am with rome.

this park was cool cause it had a giant statue dedicated to garibaldi (one of the unifiers of italy) and since i JUST wrote a paper about that before i left for holiday it was all still fresh in my brain and it was just really cool to see that statue.

basically there you go. i spent 3 full days in rome and it was hot. i had a good time i learnt a lot stayed in the best hostel i have had yet. found the place where i am gonna get married (trevi fountain) and it was just a really good way to end my trip!!!! now i have 2 more weeks of school and i am done with classes with only essays and exams to deal with!!!!!!!!!!!!