5-17
So today started off fabulously. I had a strange dream last night which I was disrupted from by one of my roommates, “Umm, you guys might want to get up.” So I look at my watch and see it’s 745. We are meeting up at 8. Awesome. Fortunately I was too tired to freak out so I just stumbled off my cot (did I mention I got stuck with the cot?) and got ready. I was better off than my other roommate who thought we had a half hour left. We made it down and even got breakfast in time. Yay for never wearing makeup! Haha.
So we took the subway back up to Piazza de Popolo, which is where we went last night. Sad day, right? We were all so excited that we’d gone exploring somewhere new, too. Haha. No, it was fine because we just briefly saw the Piazza and then went into a church there. I have decided that churches with sculptures by big windows are way more beautiful than stained-glass windows. I really enjoyed this church. Which is why it is so sad that I don’t remember the name of it! No one else got to see the cool overlook/park thing we hiked up to yesterday so I feel like today wasn’t a repeat of our free time yesterday. We were going to go to this Leonardo Da Vinci museum that has little models of the inventions he drew but it was closed. I think we might hit that tomorrow. We did go down to the Trevi fountain and I got a picture of me with the fountain. Then we went to the Pantheon and did some sketching. We had a long time for lunch and so I got some pizza for that and then we went exploring! We were just walking around looking at things. We found a shop called Tech it Easy. It was a shop full of little techie/sweet things that reminded me of stuff from thinkgeek.com. We decided it was time to head back and realized we were lost! Good thing we had a half hour, right? So we started walking in what we thought was the right direction, walked for a while, and then lost our confidence. So we stopped and asked someone thinking, “Who around here wouldn’t know where the Pantheon is.” And were informed that we were on the right path. Low and behold two blocks later we saw the magical sign pointing in the direction of the Pantheon!
To follow up this amazing adventure we went to the Capitoline Museums and saw the Piaza del Campidoglio, which Michaelangelo designed with these 6-foot wide steps. I thought it was pretty awesome. There were lots and lots of sculptures and painting in there. I thought it had a lot of neat sculptures. I liked the paintings a lot though because they had little card things saying what the painting was depicting. I got a couple mythological stories from that. We stopped at a building Erdogmus calls the “Wedding cake” which is a monument to Vittorio Emanuele II and went up on it to get some pictures of the city. Then we just came back to the hotel and had some time to recover before our dinner adventures.
Which ended up being quite the adventure. We got on the subway and went up the main street a ways. Then we found a pizza place which had delicious pizza. Then we went on a hunt for some gelato, found some really good stuff and then went back to the station to head back to the hotel. Once we got there Alaina remember this sweatshirt shop that had a really good deal and she wanted to head back that way. That was way over by the Pantheon which we had been walking away from to get to the station. So we doubled back and tried to find our way. After going the wrong way we turned around and walked the right way.
We got totally lost. So here we are, in the middle of Rome, at like 9 at night. It’s dark and the streets are looking creepy and all I can say is hallelujah I was not alone! (NOTE: There weren’t any creepers out, it’s just I get weirded out taking my dog on a walk at night in Grand Island, Nebraska.) So we get to this corner and we are trying to figure out if this is the right way or not. So we’re standing there flipping the map around and around trying to find the street we’re on. At some point I noticed this guy SLOWLY putting his stuff away on his bike and watching us, laughing on the inside. So I point him out to the other girls and start cracking up because I realize this looks like something out of the movies. Three girls, lost, flipping a map around. So we ended up going up to him and asking for directions. As we walked toward him the look on his face was amazing. He was laughing at us but he just looked like, “Here it is. They have finally come to ask for help.” He told us we needed to walk the opposite direction we were going and it was about a mile away.
I think we made his night. He definitely made ours. So we found the Pantheon, and the shop (which was closed) and then started back for the hotel. After seeing the moon over the Coliseum we soon arrived back at the hotel laughing over our dinner excursion. Great way to end the night. Even better knowing we don’t have to meet up until 10 tomorrow. Can I get a woot woot! Night guys.
So today started off fabulously. I had a strange dream last night which I was disrupted from by one of my roommates, “Umm, you guys might want to get up.” So I look at my watch and see it’s 745. We are meeting up at 8. Awesome. Fortunately I was too tired to freak out so I just stumbled off my cot (did I mention I got stuck with the cot?) and got ready. I was better off than my other roommate who thought we had a half hour left. We made it down and even got breakfast in time. Yay for never wearing makeup! Haha.
So we took the subway back up to Piazza de Popolo, which is where we went last night. Sad day, right? We were all so excited that we’d gone exploring somewhere new, too. Haha. No, it was fine because we just briefly saw the Piazza and then went into a church there. I have decided that churches with sculptures by big windows are way more beautiful than stained-glass windows. I really enjoyed this church. Which is why it is so sad that I don’t remember the name of it! No one else got to see the cool overlook/park thing we hiked up to yesterday so I feel like today wasn’t a repeat of our free time yesterday. We were going to go to this Leonardo Da Vinci museum that has little models of the inventions he drew but it was closed. I think we might hit that tomorrow. We did go down to the Trevi fountain and I got a picture of me with the fountain. Then we went to the Pantheon and did some sketching. We had a long time for lunch and so I got some pizza for that and then we went exploring! We were just walking around looking at things. We found a shop called Tech it Easy. It was a shop full of little techie/sweet things that reminded me of stuff from thinkgeek.com. We decided it was time to head back and realized we were lost! Good thing we had a half hour, right? So we started walking in what we thought was the right direction, walked for a while, and then lost our confidence. So we stopped and asked someone thinking, “Who around here wouldn’t know where the Pantheon is.” And were informed that we were on the right path. Low and behold two blocks later we saw the magical sign pointing in the direction of the Pantheon!
To follow up this amazing adventure we went to the Capitoline Museums and saw the Piaza del Campidoglio, which Michaelangelo designed with these 6-foot wide steps. I thought it was pretty awesome. There were lots and lots of sculptures and painting in there. I thought it had a lot of neat sculptures. I liked the paintings a lot though because they had little card things saying what the painting was depicting. I got a couple mythological stories from that. We stopped at a building Erdogmus calls the “Wedding cake” which is a monument to Vittorio Emanuele II and went up on it to get some pictures of the city. Then we just came back to the hotel and had some time to recover before our dinner adventures.
Which ended up being quite the adventure. We got on the subway and went up the main street a ways. Then we found a pizza place which had delicious pizza. Then we went on a hunt for some gelato, found some really good stuff and then went back to the station to head back to the hotel. Once we got there Alaina remember this sweatshirt shop that had a really good deal and she wanted to head back that way. That was way over by the Pantheon which we had been walking away from to get to the station. So we doubled back and tried to find our way. After going the wrong way we turned around and walked the right way.
We got totally lost. So here we are, in the middle of Rome, at like 9 at night. It’s dark and the streets are looking creepy and all I can say is hallelujah I was not alone! (NOTE: There weren’t any creepers out, it’s just I get weirded out taking my dog on a walk at night in Grand Island, Nebraska.) So we get to this corner and we are trying to figure out if this is the right way or not. So we’re standing there flipping the map around and around trying to find the street we’re on. At some point I noticed this guy SLOWLY putting his stuff away on his bike and watching us, laughing on the inside. So I point him out to the other girls and start cracking up because I realize this looks like something out of the movies. Three girls, lost, flipping a map around. So we ended up going up to him and asking for directions. As we walked toward him the look on his face was amazing. He was laughing at us but he just looked like, “Here it is. They have finally come to ask for help.” He told us we needed to walk the opposite direction we were going and it was about a mile away.
I think we made his night. He definitely made ours. So we found the Pantheon, and the shop (which was closed) and then started back for the hotel. After seeing the moon over the Coliseum we soon arrived back at the hotel laughing over our dinner excursion. Great way to end the night. Even better knowing we don’t have to meet up until 10 tomorrow. Can I get a woot woot! Night guys.
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