These past few days have been hectic. Yesterday was the first day of classes, though it still seems surreal that we're technically here for school, and not a vacation. Then last night Ari, Simone and I started planning our trips. It was way too overwhelming to plan a few trips at a time, so we focused on Venice for Carnivale and we finally found a hostel to stay at and this morning we booked a train to Venice for February 11 (returning monday morning).
After we got all that figured out, we went off on our adventure to the Vatican. We walked there since it's only a 40 minute walk and it was quite nice out. We weren't exactly sure how to get there-we just knew that we had to walk down the hill and turn left when we hit a wall. We walked down but never hit any wall, so we just walked down the main street until we saw a wall on the right. We found the entrance and were amazed-although I've been to the Vatican before, I feel like no matter how many times you go, you'll be in awe. We took a lot of pictures and went inside as well. Although we wanted to go the museum and Sistine Chapel, we decided that we're gonna be in Rome for the next 3 months, and we really wanted to go to the Colosseum, so we did that instead. We were starving by the time we got there, so we stopped at a restaurant by there and got pizza, bruschetta and tiramisu. It was delicious and a fun experience, cause we had to order in Italian since the waitress didn't know English. I'm pretty sure that at one point we combined English-Spanish-Italian into one sentence to order food... Now we're trying to plan Barcelona for next weekend, so it'll be nice knowing the language and being able to easily order what we want.
This was a restaurant right by the Colosseum, so we went there right after. It was pretty chilly so we didn't spend too much time there, but we got good pictures and had fun, so it worked out. We also saw a cat sleeping the Colosseum. It looked pretty warm-it was sleeping on a spotlight.
Then we went and tried to find a bus. We knew we had to catch bus 81 but we couldn't find the bus stop. So we just kept walking-our motto this semester seems to be "eh, whatever. There's more to see." At one point we realized that we had walked in a circle but we ended up finding the bus stop pretty quickly and the bus came soon after. Although we took the long way to the bus stop we saw more so it was definitely worth it. So we took bus 81 and got off at the end of the line and transferred over to bus 990. While waiting for the bus we saw a gelateria and decided to get some gelato. It was incredible-it's probably one of the best gelato places I've been to so far. Then we took bus 990 and got off a block away from JFRC. Now we're planning Barcelona (I love that we can just say "let's go to Barcelona next weekend" and it's an actual possibility!).
This was a restaurant right by the Colosseum, so we went there right after. It was pretty chilly so we didn't spend too much time there, but we got good pictures and had fun, so it worked out. We also saw a cat sleeping the Colosseum. It looked pretty warm-it was sleeping on a spotlight.
Then we went and tried to find a bus. We knew we had to catch bus 81 but we couldn't find the bus stop. So we just kept walking-our motto this semester seems to be "eh, whatever. There's more to see." At one point we realized that we had walked in a circle but we ended up finding the bus stop pretty quickly and the bus came soon after. Although we took the long way to the bus stop we saw more so it was definitely worth it. So we took bus 81 and got off at the end of the line and transferred over to bus 990. While waiting for the bus we saw a gelateria and decided to get some gelato. It was incredible-it's probably one of the best gelato places I've been to so far. Then we took bus 990 and got off a block away from JFRC. Now we're planning Barcelona (I love that we can just say "let's go to Barcelona next weekend" and it's an actual possibility!). 
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