Hello all my fellow followers.... My goodness it has been quite awhile, and i am sorry about that. I have missed you! This will be a long blog!!
Last Friday, Lara Allison and i set out on our adventure to Rome!! Colosseum here we come!! We arrived later at night because our flights were being a sass and then we had to fly into Zurich Switzerland(I wanted Swedish Chocolate). After getting lost, we found our 'interesting' bed and breakfast later finding out there is NO breakfast! haha. The place we stayed was just funny because it seemed like this man literally rented out his apartment of 3 rooms to people., Where the crack did he sleep?? haha anywho we had a nice big room and bathroom so it worked. That night we met up with some guy friends from SNC and went to some bars and ofcourse got gellato. Although we were lost at first due to there being too many different water fountaiins to pick from to meet at. haha we were at the wrong one, for awhile.
We were a 5 minute walk away from the Vatican. I was so excited because id soon be seeing my best friend Jason who is studying there. WOW.. The Vatican!!! Beautiful area with St. Peters Basilica facing us with the Popes apartment building off to the right, beautiful water fountains, cobblestone and tall collumns. It was like a movie because as soon as i saw Jason we slowly ran together to hug. It was by far quite Precious if i do say so myself. To make things even better, we were able to see the Pope speak to us. YES, a red carpet was rolled out of his window and he emerged greeting everyone in 7 different languages and saying a prayer! HOW COOL IS THAT!!! One does not get to see that everyday!! ROMPOUS!!! There were so many people gathered from all diferent place and everyone fell silent when the Pope Spoke. It was such an experience. After that we wandered with Jason to find a "Cheap" pizza place.... Let me just say i gained about 78 1/2 pounds on this darn trip. Anywho then we proceeded to get gelatto, bc i mean you cannot not get it when in Italy!
Next stop was the Colosseum. It was crazy walking down a huge road flooded with people and off in the distance is a broken down building that i have only seen in pictures. Along the walk there are many ruins that are just so intriguing to see. I was also fortunate enough to meet one of my roomies from SNC kelly M. along the path.... It was like a little reunion!!! We all went on and toured all the different ruins, taking many pictures. Although we did not have enough time to go into the Colosseum, so we would the next day! That night we had a nice italian Dinner!!! Jason took us around the area he lives which is Trastevere. May i say how much i love the multiple courses.
The next day we hit up the Colosseum!! It was so crazy!! Such huge rocks to create something where gladiators once fought and people were persecuted by men or animals. Some of the stories are just terrible. In Highschool Jason and i were in this play, "when in Rome" where most of it was set in the Colloseum. For a minute we got into our characters of Senator Altilis and the Princess. haha. Next we headed off to the Spanish steps. Gahd those were a climb. We kept walking up the hill till we came across a park. Here is where the amazingness starts. We decided to rent a 4 person bike!!! 2 in the front and 2 in the back..... guess who was driver first.... ME!!! We each proceeded switching off and driving, my goodness it was a lot of work pedaling. Then It was Laras turn... She tends to like to off road things more rather than sticking to paths. We flew down a rocky, grassy hill full speed and clipped part of a bush!! She always tells me exaggerate the story but i do no such rompous. We then were in the middle of a road which led to a highway... But i do have to say that was the ride of my life. We could not stop giggling!!! After our big day we were hungry and once again ate at a nice resturaunt. We had chocolate cake dessert and inside it was like an apricot filling... i think i wouldve preferred like raspberry or strawberry.!
I cannot remember all the exact orders of everything so i will just list the other things we did.
Well after getting stranded in Rome for another day, due to air traffic strikers in Greece, Allsion and i wandered off to an outside country area in italy. It was so beautiful. We could see the town below and the place was filled with beautiful water fountains. It was so picturesque. Here is where i got to eat my first Nutella and banana crepe and let me tell you it was delicious!! After our day out we went back to the Vatican city square and wandered around in St. peter's basilica. It was so beautiful inside.
Another day we traveled through all the holy building were able to enter the Sis teen Chapel. I was felt with such a refreshing feeling as i stared at the beautiful paintings all over. It is one of those feelings of happiness and releif that can not be described. it was perfect. we also went to many museums where we saw all the stone figured people. Boy oh boy i saw so many guys crouch aeas for that day!! Those statues are sassy!.
Ofcourse we shopped or as i like to describe my shopping as window shopping. I bought myself a scarf and green jacket. I loved all the different stores although i felt so out of place walking down the stretch where all the very expensive stores like Gucci and what not were. Maybe in years to come if i marry a sugar daddy or rich man i can shop there and look. But until then i steer clear!! ahahaha!
OH my rompous! I had this amazing pastry with Nutella all in the middle of it! Pure Rompous is what that was. Also i would like to mention that once again i was sick. What i thought was a sinus infection turned into bronchitus and i had the worst cough ive ever had in my life. it was awful. You know when your coughing straight for 5 minutes, your eyes are watering and ur gettig those hot sweats. Yes, that was sexy ole me the whole trip oh and the loud nose blowing. In rome alone we visited 5 different Pharmacies and i was drinking the cough syrup from the bottle to try and stop coughing!!! haha I am so thankful to how nice the girls were to me.. i felt bad keeping them up at night with mmy horrenous cough! We might have one night had orange juice and wine mixed while sitting in our beds one night!! No judging please.
Finally we hit up this resturaunt that looked like a hole in the wall place. All i saw were blue blinking lights and i was like! Hey Lets go there. The place was decorated with candles along the steps opening to a bar and then sitting area. There were also 2 other rooms filled with squishy couches and chairs. it was so cute in there.!! The food was great as well. I ordered this meatball thing that she said is the places most popuar... i just got two meatballs expecting to have spaghetti too!! hahaha But they were actually quite filling! Then we all just hung out there for a few hours drank hot chocolate and talked with the owner who is only 20!!!! I give her huge props for what she is already doing at that age!! So when your in room look for the blue lights, you will not be let down.
There are so many things i am sure i am missing from Rome! but i will add them in the next blog if need be. Well it was now tim to hit Athens, Greece..... and all i can say is the food... Out of this world, especially the fattening pastry's!
My friends, this is only a little of my story and will continue on in the next blog!!! Brace yourselves!! Love you!
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