It's the last trip I'll take before heading home in 12 days!
I'd been to Rome once before, the summer after my junior year of high school, when I was 16 years old. I spent three weeks studying in Italy and we spent just one single day in Rome.
It was crazy to go back, especially because I, completely by accident, packed the same shirt I'd worn in Rome four years ago! Time for a new wardrobe?
July 2008
December 2011
SO MUCH HAS CHANGED BUT MY FAITHFUL BLUE V-NECK HAS SURVIVED.
We created a note on my iPod and added to it the entire weekend as went. Here is said note, completely unedited:
Friday:
-bought Milka in the airport to break 100
-went 104 mph on the highway in the cab of death
-spoke Spanish, French, and German instead of Italian
-played with Melissa the dog during dinner
-got lost, cried and got given chocolate and tissues by random restaurant hostess
-said "fuck it" to food intolerances
-gave Matt and Anna all the wine and biscotti
Saturday
-put nutella on all the things
-got swindled by Romans on the Spanish Steps
-morning gelato at Trevi Fountain
-Pantheon
-pizza in Piazza Navona
-it's not going to rain
-coat on or coat off?
-gave Shelby a heart attack
-knocked over all the things
-St Peter Basilica and surprise Vatican with all the things!
-finally got to the Sistine Chapel... and took illegal pictures...
-spent 10 euro on fruit
-walked around in the dark because it was 4:30
-went to that one restaurant after all
-didn't fillet our own fish
*Note: there WOULD be a picture here of an entire fish on my plate, but unfortunately my camera died so Matt is currently in possession of the proper documentation*
-got the best gelato in the world
-kicked the snoring hostel roommate
Sunday
-made friends with girls at our hostel from Vienna!
-Santa Maria Maggiore
-got confused by the opera block of metal... with palm trees
-got poured on in the Colosseum
-saw Annas history nerd come to life
-SAW ALL THE RUINS
-had a perfectly normal, crying free lunch
-outsmarted the shiver
-contemplated buying a tomato bag and filling it with sundried tomatoes
-made Shelby buy her own present
-went into our fourth leather store
-had to prove that we had already eaten lunch at a restaurant after they tried to get us to eat there again... How could they forget us?
-FOUND THE GELATO AGAIN
-held all the hands
-sat on the Spanish Steps with Hubert
-asked our bodies to forgive us for all the cheese
