We Ate Pizza in Rome.
So, I just got back from the most spectacular weekend in Rome with some amazing friends. Sarah and I flew in Thursday night to meet her high school friend, Jimmy, who is studying abroad there. Six other friends from Sevilla were on our flight, so we hung out with them all weekend as well. Jimmy met us at the train station and took us back to his apartment where we crashed both nights. Not paying for hostels is soo nice!Thursday night we went to a bar called Scholars. It was quite the cultural experience: a British band, in an Irish bar, full of Americans, in Rome! fun times. It was absolutely pouring when we finally left the bar around 3:30am, but we decided to make our way over to the Trevi fountain. Usually it's really crowded there because it's a major tourist attraction in Rome, but since it was 4am and pouring...we were the only people in sight. I wish I'd tried harder to take a better picture because it was breathtaking...but I was freezing and a little tipsy. This is all I got:
Friday, we woke up at 9am, drank the best cappuccino I've ever had, met up with the other 6, and wandered around Rome in the rain with stylish bootleg umbrellas. We went to the Pantheon:
and we tested out the Roman gastronomy...Pizza!! Honestly though, we were not especially impressed. This was our only real meal we ate in Italy...we were too busy to go to any other restaurants, but thank goodness we got to try some gelato! That was more than delicious.
Friday night we had a good 'ol college house party because no one wanted to make the 40 minute trip in the rain to the bars. 1 broken bed, 1 sticky floor, 7 pizzas, 5 minikegs of Heineken, and some quality American rap music later, we prepared ourselves for another 4 hours of sleep and another day of tourism.
Saturday, the sun decided to join us...thank God...I don't know if I can handle 3 day of soggy feet in a row!! We made it to the Vatican Museum/Sistine Chapel and the Colosseum. We decided against waiting in line for St. Peter's Basilica because we wouldn't have had enough time to see it all. We ate more pizza (3rd time...) in the cafeteria of the Vatican...
I think the highlight of the day may have been watching the street vendors selling fake Prada purses and watches getting chased by the police. Our friend Mike ended up getting a free watch because the vendor had to flee.I wish we could have stayed Saturday night too. It went by way too fast! Just gives me an excuse to go back to Italy I guess... It was really nice having Sarah's friend Jimmy with us to be our "tour guide" for the weekend.
I leave for PARIS on WEDNESDAY!!!! I can't even begin to describe how much I am looking forward to it! I can't believe I have less than a month in Europe. This has been the fastest semester of my life...now I'm frantically trying to get everything done that I meant to do in the past 3 months! and I'm loving it!! :-D
ciao, bella!!!!
posted by Erin @ 3:43 AM
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