Rome

Let me tell you about my adventure in Rome!

The trip to Roma was a 2 day event for us in art history. Thankfully we were told we won't have to take notes, good thing too, there was just far to much to take in. A cute story to help explain the mass amounts of stuff: In Rome there are only two Metro lines, both which close at 9 p.m. The reason being, according to the art history teacher, was that every night they do archeological studies in the subway. I'll let the pictures do the speaking for day one, but we were so lucky to have such beautiful dramatic light! It was awesome.

The art history class in full

This thing was huge. Think Mines of Moria.

Britt, both a scholar and a lady.

AJ and I feeling impressive.

There are no people in Rome, only bodys with cameras.

After a full day of learning it is time for dinner- we go to a resturant, order our food from the menu which seems reasonable, but the prices of drnks was no where. The food was so-so, and some plates had to be sent back because they were cold. Bill time came and for some reason, the 10 of us had run up 220 euro. Per que?Well those drinks, the three litters of water, three pints of beer, and three glasses of wine cost over 100 euro. That's right, a bottel of water ended up being 15 euro. As in 45 euro for water, over 50 bucks US. Well, the solution we all found? Leave what we owed for the food, service, and what was a reasonable price for drinks, and ran like hell. Running by the Trevie Fountain to the Spanish Steps to escape the explotation of a group of American girls was the right thing to do. Ah, memories.

On the second day we got up early to go to the Vacitan Museum and St Peters Basilica.

I didn't even try to take pictures of everything there- it was impossible. There was just much to much. For three hours I wandered around the museum, getting lost in halls and seeing what is, as far as I can tell, everything in the universe. From Eygptian mummies to contemporary art, there is everything! The one thing I did find specail, was these nuns across the courtyard, also looking at all of the art. How wonderful, in the eyes of the lord and art, we are all equal to learn and understand.

St Peters was amazing, overwhelming, the true grandure of faith shown in bronzen and stone. The brocque statues of various saints which were 7 times life size was amazing. The open area is also marvelous. I took a few pictures of outside, but the rain was hampering the photo taking.

Looking out from St Peters

Statue of St Peter

I went with the Gemmer family (visiting my roomie Annie Gemmer) to have some true Roman pizza. So yummy! Everything was by the kilo, and tastey as all get out. Even with the rest of Rome trying to screw me over, the nice guys outside of the brick wall around the vatican were wonderful. We got free candy for Obama being the president elect. Woot!

This was all followed by shopping, Giovanna getting seperated from us on the train, her finding us again, getting slightly lost in the train station, and some wine with prof kristina on the train ride back to venice that night. Being a "grown-up" I got to have wine too!