Rome

Trip Start May 15, 2008
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Trip End Jul 08, 2008


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Saturday, May 31, 2008

Cassie(a girl that was studying in Paris with me) and I went to Rome for 3 nights.  When we got there, we had no map of where our Hostel was.......so this guy approached Cassie while I was getting my backpack off the bus and asked if she needed a taxi, she said yes.....well she didn't really bother to ask what other peoples rates were so he grabbed her suitcase and basically starting almost running down the street with it.  We started following him and then started running after him hoping he wasn't stealing her shit.  We get to his "taxi" which was a piece of shit car probably further away from the train station than our hostel was and puts our shit in his trunk.  Him being the psycho Italian he is, we get in and he drives us around in circles for a good 30 minutes before finally arriving at our hostel, which yes is only 2 blocks away from the train station.  Anyway, I was just happy to get out of that psychos car because I was literally afraid of what or where he was going to take us to.

Once we get to our lovely Hostel, we took a nap because we were up at 4am for the flight to Rome.  Once we woke up, we decided to wonder around for some food and to see what there was to do.  I also decided to send home the stupid backpack I had that was lined with bars and was bruising me and hurt very badly, so we also went out looking for a rolling dufflebag. 

Our 2nd day in Rome, we went on a tour.  We saw more churches(because there were not enough in Paris to see!), the Vatican, and of course the Colluseum!!!  The entire Roman empire area was really cool, if I ever can get on a computer that is not a complete piece of shit, I can load some pictures up!  At night we found this cute little restaurant because I really had to pee, Cassie thought I should just pee in the fountain, I decided to go to this place that was open instead....it looked a little more promising than the fountain, because at least I would have toilet paper to wipe myself!  Anyway, while we were there, we started talking to this crazy looking lady with an obscene amount of makeup on.  We sort of made friends with her, so she offered us a ride.  Since she seemed pretty cool, we got in her car.  While in her car, my foot got jammed into something....who knows what....and started bleeding horribly.  It ended up taking off a good portion of my big toenail and thankfully healed (only took 2 weeks!)

The next day our plan was to go to the coast to a cute little town and also go to the beach for a couple of hours.....that didn't happen....we woke up to a shitty weather day.  We ended up sleeping in since the weather sucked, then decided to go the parade since it was Italy's Independence day.   We got there too late, everyone was going home since it was raining.  So we just walked around some more and ate some more pizza, gelato, and got a couple more bottles of wine!!!

I can't wait to go back to Italy!
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