June 19-ROME
DUDE, Rome is beautiful and the historical sites are fabulous! It’s real hot here (they don’t understand this usage of real-like an adjective-in Spain by the way) and water is a precious commodity; water with ice is like precious gold in these parts. We try to eat cheap for lunch by eating a sandwhich from a street cart. I thought it was delicious, but going from eating five huge Spanish meals a day to eating barely 2 small meals a day, I would find anything delicious. Words can’t describe the sites, literally breathtaking, so I’m going to try and add some more pics of Rome so you can understand.
June 20-ROME
Welp, it finally happened, we got bamboozled. After our tour of the Coliseum went so well we decided that another tour of the Vatican would be great (ok I made the call to take the tour so it is basically my fault). We start the hike to the Vatican and then are stopped by a lovely lady with a butterfly tattoo on her back. She persuades us that for only 10 euros more than the regular price of the Vatican we could skip the three hour line and get a tour! So we think oh why not. We don't want to wait for three hours in the burning sun. So we head down this path to the tour shop (should have know right then this was a bad idea) and we sign-up. We start walking with our tour guide to the Vatican and literally just skip a hug group of people. This skip is not like "hey I'm an official tour guide and I get to go around you" this was like "hey I already have one group in line here, just get with the other people." Soon, our audio headphones start ringing as this American woman grabs the microphone of the tour guide and starts shouting at him (in English but in an Italian accent). "YOU ARE A LIAR!, THIS DOES NOT GO TO THE FRONT OF THE LINE! I WANT MY MONEY BACK, YOU ARE A LIAR!" Then she is escorted off by another member of the tour company. Jessica, Caroline, and I are dying laughing but realize this is going to be the worst tour ever and we definitely got ripped off, but oh well-WHEN IN ROME!
Once inside the Vatican we totally tune the tour guide out and start exploring and taking pictures. Oh man! The things I got to see were incredible, obviously my favorite being the Sistine Chapel and the famous picture of God and Man almost touching. You aren't supposed to take pics in here, but how could we not!?
After the Vatican we had a lovely hotdog (yes a hotdog! I was so happy, even if it wasn't red). Jessica got her another boyfriend as the old man making our hotdogs asked her about her love life. Once he found out that she didn't have a boyfriend, he asked if she would wait for him...haha. Oh Italians. They love them some Jessica!
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