Roma.

I am finally home after my vacation and I feel like I need a vacation. Emily and I did so much while we were in Italy and Rome was no exception. It started out very hectic but it ended up being my favorite part of the trip. When we arrived in Rome we took the metro up to our Hostel but when we got there, we had to go back pst the train station to a different hostel due to a gas leak. Although it was annoying at first, it ended up being for the better. The hostel we ended up at was my first real hostel experience. Up until then, Em and I had our own rooms just because that was the way it worked out. It was a party hostel and Em was able to go out with the travelers there while I met up with two of our friends from Paris. I walked from our hostel (near the Coliseum) to the Trevi Fountain, where we got a buffet dinner and mojitos for 7€ and then got gelato to enjoy by the fountain. We had a lot of fun catching up, messing around, and scaring off vendors who tried to sell us things. We made plans for the next day and I walked back to the hostel past several large monuments. Walking around in Rome and walking past ruined columns, huge domes and statues was really very over whelming and it got to the point that you would walk around and completely miss amazing structures because there where so many. You became numb. 
The next day was site seeing mania: we met up early at the Coliseum and got an audio guide which the three of us shared, we went to a church that a tour guide recommended (pictures later once I steal them from the others) with real gold inlaid in the ceiling, we walked to the old roman baths, the palatine hill, and the Altare della Patria where we went up the elevator and bumped into the same tour guide who gave us a quick tour of the skyline of Rome. We then walked to a famous Piazza (they are all famous really, but it was quite beautiful) and took some more pictures. Ended the day by meeting up with two English girls from the hostel and sharing dinner at a beautiful alley way restaurant with a four course meal and fairy lights. (Again, pictures later) We wandered over back to Trevi Fountain where we watched a very rowdy crowd pretend to throw people into the fountain and a proposal!
By this time we were feeling very overwhelmed but we still managed to make it up to the Vatican City before we left. We didn't go inside to see the Chapel because Italy is very harsh with us North Americans and wanted to charge us fifteen euros plus a two hour wait, but back at the fountain I threw in a coin so I should be getting back there eventually.  

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