On my first Friday night in Rome I went out with Hazel and Libby, Jason, and our host families. We walked the historic piazzas of Rome and had some gelato. I had Nutella and dark chocolate. Bellisimo!
Saturday I took some much needed alone time to visit the Vatican and walk around the museum. I saw the Sistine Chapel (which, before this trip, I always thought was called the 16th Chapel). It is enormous. Impressive. I was always under the assumption that it was one little ceiling in a church but the thing consists of rooms and rooms of paintings and mosaics.
In all the Vatican is pretty well kept, clean, luscious green grasses and shrubs, especially in comparison to the rest of Rome.
In the evening Emma took me out with her husband and son for a tour of Rome. We visited the Coliseum, St. Peters Basilica where the pope addresses congregates, and finally ended the night with an incredible seafood dinner. When Italians eat, they go all out. We had about 15 different antipastos, two types of spaghetti, wine, desert and expresso. Incredible.
Sunday I went to see some ancient Roman bath ruins. It was a really interesting sight to see as these structures must have been enormous when they were operational. I’ve spent a lot of time in bathhouses in the Russian neighborhoods in Brooklyn and they would take up the space of one room in these enormous ancient monstrosities.
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