It Is A Europe Trip.: Rome, Italy 6/17

In Rome we stayed in a camping village in a private house tent. It was actually pretty amazing. It had a very nice pool(although we never got a chance to use it), was 2 seconds from a bus stop, and 5 minutes from a big supermarket. Weather was beautiful as well, I enjoyed this village so much.

Early on we visited the Vatican. Ran into scammers posing as employees here but I had read about them, talked them away, and we got into a 1hr30min line to get into the Vatican museum/Sistine chapel. About 5 minutes into the wait, the lord tested us all with torrential rain and hail. The street sellers were selling umbrellas for 5euro but I talked him down to 3. That took away the sting of the hail but we were still drenched head to toe.

People were screaming and the street was flooding an inch or 2. I personally love rain so I thought it was awesome. Others didn't necessarily agree with my sentiments here Hahaha. Suddenly, after about 10 total minutes in line, people started bailing and leaving, failing gods test as they did so. Pathetic. We were inside and had tickets within 15 minutes. Pretty awesome that we didn't have to wait out in the sun for hours.

ANYWAYS, the Vatican museum was ridiculous. So much detail head to toe. Gold and paintings and sculptures and ornate doorframes and ceilings wherever you looked. I won't say that I took pictures in areas where that wasn't allowed. Cuz that's just wrong and I'm a very morale person. So I won't say that.

The Sistine chapel was actually pretty breathtaking. The painting was just amazing and I don't usually care about that stuff.

We saw more monuments in Rome than anywhere. The Colosseum, pantheon, Roman forum, trevi fountain, etc. Etc etc. I'll list them at the bottom. Was very awesome and i always like standing in areas where people lived and died thousands of years ago.

Very fun city. Food was nothing special. Pizza and pasta. Who knew. Was all good but we mostly cooked ourselves while we were there. A very cool aspect of rome was how no matter where you were walking, you'd come across at least 2 grand churches that were amazing inside and out.

I really learned how to use bus/metro/trains here as opposed to just winging it in previous locations. I won't call myself an expert, but on a scale of 1-10 I'm really good.