Roma, Italia

I is exhausted. This are why :

Shortly after composing our last blog entry, we hopped on a night train to Rome. We decided to try something new and go without a couchette for this ride (hard to be a 4€ train ticket.) in hindsight, we really should have just paid for the couchette. Total, we slept about an hour a piece (coming in 10-15 minute intervals). Needless to say, we were exhausted upon our arrival in Rome.

Nonetheless, we checked in at the hostel, grabbed breakfast, and began our day. After all, Tim only gets two days in Italy. Much to our dismay, we could not find a ticket to St. Giovani Rotundo so Tim will not get to visit the final resting place of his confirmation saint, Padre Pio. However, Maria and I still plan to go after Tim flies out, take some pictures, and photoshop him in so it's basically the same anyway...

We did not want to lose anymore time so we quickly headed to the Vatican. My favorite part of any building, I have learned, is the ceiling. You can only imagine how much I loved the Sistene Chapel. The rest of the Vatican museum was cool too. We especially enjoyed taking pictures with the statues, in the positions that the statues were in.

We spent 2 or 3 hours in the museum before grabbing a quick lunch and heading to St. Peter's Basillica. The Basillica was definitely the most impressive church I have ever seen. Maria especially liked seeing Michelangelo's Pietà and going to mass in St. Peter's. Tim also enjoyed going to mass in St. Peter's. I, however, did not enjoy going to mass in St. Peter's because NO ONE TOLD ME THEY WERE GOING. It's okay. I am making Maria go back with me for Sunday mass (I didn't have go twist her arm too much for that one).

We left the Vatican and headed back to our hostel for a round of much needed showers. After that, we headed over to the colussium to eat our last fancy dinner of the trip. Courtesy of Mom and Dad, we each ate a pasta plate, shared lamb ribs, drank some classy white wine, and polished it all off with some gelato. Thank you :)

We're calling it a night early tonight--we really our exhausted and have one last (maybe) big day ahead of us tomorrow. Thanks for reading, and expect to hear from me at least once or twice more before I return to good ol' American soil ;)

TheTresAmis