Roma

I LOVE ROME
It's such a wonderful city! It even smells good there.

I got there last Wednesday night and my aunt, I guess (she's the wife of my Nonna's cousin's son), picked me up from the airport, since I'd be staying with them. On Thursday, I went around and saw so much.  In the morning, I visited a lot of ruins, such as the colosseum, roman forum, and palatine hill. I took 400 pictures of ruins. It's just so cool to me though, because I've never been in a place with so many things from so long ago still in existence.  After a very long morning on my feet, I went back to the apartment, had a little bite to eat, then went out with my aunt to see the Pantheon, Trevi Foutain, Piazza di Navona, and Piazza di Spagna.  I also had real Italian gelato, and it was wonderful. 

The next day I slept in a little, then went to see the Vatican.  St. Peter's Basilica was a lot bigger than I actually imagined.  But the Vatican Museum was really cool, it has a lot of interesting things.  One of the things I saw that was most noteworthy would have to be the Sistine Chapel.  Silence is oligatory in the chapel, and it's forbidden to take pictures.

That night, we went out for pizza.  And one of the things they have a the resauraunt are pizzas called "coccodrillo".  Basically what they do is make a pizza and roll it up so all the toppings are on the inside, and it looks like a crocodile! (hence the name coccodrillo) They put olives on toothpicks for eyes and everything! It's so cute. then we had real Italian gelato again :)


On Saturday, we went for a little walk, not too far away from the house.  We went to the museum of the wall, which is a little part of the wall of rome by the door of San Sebastiano and tells some history about Rome's walls. It was cool. I got to go up outside on the top of the wall and I could see mountains in the distance! In the evening, we went to the Borghese Gallery, which has many works by Bernini and Carvaggio.  It amazed me to actually see the detail in some of the statues! It's incredible that these artists were able to carve marble as if it were butter, making it look like real silk or skin.  The detail is impeccable!


That night, I went out with my cousin and some of his friends to see a Muse tribute band concert.  That was a pleasant surprise too, because I didn't know what I'd be doing that night, and it's a good thing that I like Muse! :) So that was a lot of fun as well.  We got in sort of late that night, and I got up the next morning at 5:30a.m. to get ready and get to the airport.  My journey home was smooth, but I was very tired by the end of the day Sunday.