Off to Rome!!

Thursday morning, we got up bright and early and headed out to the train station. There was actually a bus that picked up from the train station to take us to the airport.
So Brandon got up with us, and made sure we got on the bus okay. It was hard because I was excited to go to Rome, but really sad to leave Brandon again.
But I was on the bus and going to Rome, so we got to the airport, and jumped on the plane for Rome.

We flew into Rome and made it by 11. The airport that we landed in was connected to the train station, and so we walked over to the train station to catch a train.

There is a direct train to the train station by our hotel. So we jumped on and were off to Rome!! We got in, and headed towards our "hotel". Where we stayed was called the Caildini Inn, advertised as a Bed and Breakfast. We went down Caildini st, which is more like a block and there were only two things on this street. They were both residential, and intercom system on the outside where you could buzz someone. We passed this and walked on the street behind it, looking for this place. No one knew where it was, and that was rather concerning. We were smack dab in the middle of Rome's Chinatown also...lol. So that was interesting.

We got the address of it and went back to that residential intercom board, and see in tiny print "Caildini Inn". GAHHH!!! So the lady comes down and gets us, takes us across the street and up to the "inn". AKA an apartment she converted into three guest rooms. It was not the worst place I've ever stayed in, but it was interesting.

We dropped our bags and got ready to go out and find dinner. We had purchased a hop-on hop-off bus pass for 48 hours, so we decided to take that to find dinner.

We took it to the Colosseum, and got off. Allie had seen some restaurants across the street from the Colosseum, so we headed in that direction.

We decided which restaurant to eat at, and then got some food.

After lunch we went to the Colosseum, and oh my, it was amazing!! Very cool!!!
This Colosseum is the largest in the world and often referred to as THE Colosseum, there are actually a few, but this is the largest and most amazing! It was used as an arena for entertainment. Sometimes they would flood the bottom and have ship battles! This one also housed gladiator battles, but more went on in the Verona Colosseum! It literally blew my mind.

We hopped back on the bus and rode it around the rest of the way. Learning about the Vatican, Trevi fountain, palaces, fountains among other things.

The Vatican

When we got back to the stop closest to our hotel, we went and found dinner. I got amazing pizza and we did a little shopping.

After dinner and whatnot, we walked back to our hotel. It was just after dark, and ALL the worst people in town decided to congregate on our walk home. We were nearly running home, it was insane. We made it safely, though.

Until Next Time...