Rome

So after the Florence episode we got into Rome. We took the metro to our stop and as we got out of the metro station...BAM!...there's the coloseum! It was impressive. We went through the initial, "we're lost" thing again, but found our hotel pretty easily. We checked in with this cute little Italian lady and quickly crashed.
the next day we had to be early risers because we had a tour of the Vatican. We were still in line for 3 hours though! We met a couple from Australia and another couple from Canada. We ended up hanging out with them all day and they were great people. The canadians really did say "eh" after a lot of things and the Australians had some funny terms too...like they call a line a que. Anyway, after the Vatican, where Amy almost got into multiple fights for trying to stop people from taking pictures of the Sistine Chapels...tell you more about that later...we went to St. Peter's church. It is the biggest church in the world. We went up on top of the dome, then down into the basilica, then into the tombs underneath. It is unreal and impossible to describe. It is so huge and every inch is covered with something beatiful and priceless. That was our entire day. We wearily headed back and crashed after saying goodbye to our new friends.
The second day we spent doing a tour of the ancient ruins. We went to the capitol hill and saw the roman senate building. We went into a dank prison where Peter and Paul had been imprisoned. We walked throught the ruins of the ancient Roman temples and ended up at the Coloseum. We walked through the coloseum and were impressed. We finished the day walking on the Palantine hill where Romulus and Remulus, the two brothers raised by a she-wolf and who started Rome, were supposedly raised. That again, was an entire day of waiting in lines and walking around. It is good that we are walking so much though because our diet is pretty much pizza and gelato. My feet are freakin killin me right now though!
Today is our last day in Rome. We are going to try to see the Treviti fountain, The Spanish Steps, and The Pantheon. Then we have to take a train to the airport where we leave this evening for Athens. This is our 'not-so-fun' night where we are in the Athens Airport until 6 am, but then, we get into Santorini tomorrow. We will try to find computer access there asap to update the blog, but it may be a few days. Take care until then, David and Amy