Rome!

We made it to Rome!  We flew in yesterday afternoon.  Our B&B might be the sketchiest place ever.  We came to check in and it's in an apartment building, so we buzzed and buzzed and no one answered.  So we snuck in when someone else opened the door. Then, we walked up to where this place was supposed to be and knocked and knocked and no one answered!  Finally, we found a couple who let us in.  The keys to our room were in our door and there was no one working the desk... so we took the keys and hoped it was the right room!  This morning, someone came at like 9 to ask us if we wanted breakfast.  So we got breakfast, and we told him our toilet doesn't work (cause it doesn't).  It's night time and it's still broken.  And no one cleaned in our room.  Very odd place.  We've called the number on the door at least 7 times and no one has answered.  


Last night, we met up with Megan's friend Max who's studying abroad in Rome.  We went to dinner at a little Italian place and then went to meet up with some of Max's friends.  There are eight guys, all from the east coast, studying abroad with him, so we went out with them last night.  It was a good time!  We went to some bar, and then tried to go to some club but one of the guys got us lost so we just went back.  This morning, we got up and went on a bus tour (about 2-3 hours long).  It was an audio one, where you listen to headphones, so not as good as the live announcers we had in London.  Still really good to see everything though!  After the bus tour, we ate at a little Italian place right by the Colosseum.  Then we walked around by the Colosseum and into the Piazza de Venezia (I think that's what it was called).  We hung out there for a while (absolutely beautiful buildings!) and then walked back to our B&B (after spending a good 10 minutes lost in the middle of Rome).  


Tonight we're going to check out to Piazza Navona.  Tomorrow morning, we have our Vatican Museums tour, which I am SO excited about!  The other girls are way more interested in the Ancient Rome stuff (which is interesting), but I'm really stoked for the Vatican.  Apparently, the Pope was cannonized today (because he cured a woman of Parkinson's).. we drove by on our bus right after the ceremony, so there were a bajillion people there.  


I just love Rome.