Today was our first real day in Rome. We began our day by meeting our tour group and heading into the City. We took the metro like system right into the city and started our walking tour with the Spanish steps They were pretty but not exactly quite I imagined. They were just steps but later at night I realized it was an awesome view of all the lights. After the spanish steps we walked towards the Trevi fountain. It was sooo much bigger that I thought. Nick and I took some pictures and continues on our tour. We forgot to throw coins in (but later we were able to a night).We then walked to the piassa novena (spelling?)Half the group had some Gelato and then we saw the Pantheon and had so Pizza right by it. The pizza was delicious, I got Pizza margarita and Nick got some broccoli pizza. Then we were able Upon advice from Jess we did her top things she recommended. After the Pantheon we met back up with the group and walked to the vatican. We thought that we would be able to just walk right up and go inside but we were very mistaken. The line to get into the museum was 1 hour long and had no shade. I thought we would be able to skip the line with the group but the 1 hour long line was the group line. After being offered many different hats,umbrellas and post cards we enter the building where it looks like a terminal for an airport with the amount of security there was. After we get through the gate we met up with our Australian tour guide to guide us around. The view was amazing. The amount of art and the intensity of the paintings was surreal. I was constantly taking photos and pictures every chance I could. We ended up taking about 300 pictures in the Vatican and we were not even allowed to take photos in some. The sistine chapel was beautiful. It was like better than I pictured it would be. The view and the story behind it was great as well. We finished up the tour and went to St.Peters basilica. That was another sight that I will not forget. After that I walked through the square and went off and bought some rosaries from the vatican before leaving. We ended up walking forever and went to back to the hotel to relax because we were meeting up with Ashley's friend Sarah. Sarah lives in Rome but goes to school with Ashley at UVA. We walked all the same places we walked earlier today but were able to get a local point of view. She showed up an amazing gelato place where only the local go and it was literally a hole in the wall. Jenny came with us as well. She is another girl on the trip so it was the 4 of us just walking the town. We threw coins into the Trevi Fountain. After that we went to Campo de Fiori. This area was full of bars and young people. It was the place to be. We went to a couple different bars to see the different locations. While we were sitting town a magician was doing a show and the show was soo funny. He kept saying "watch me" in Italian. The show was very cheesy and quite hilarious. His final trick was that he took off his toupee and everyone put coins into his hair. We relaxed and then went to a euro dance club with all the locals. I have never seen so many guys with tight jeans in my life in the club. We did not stay long and decided it was a good idea to go out and get crepes with nutella before we got a cab ride home. The night ended with a crazy cab driver getting us back to our hotel after driving speeds of 100km/hr. The night was over and Sarah went home.
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