Rome - Day 7

Small update for Day 6....

After ariving back to the hotel and updating the blog, I was going to go out and get something to eat and look for this huge internet cafe that is in the Rick Steves book. James asked if I was going to get some cappaccino and I said I probably would, so he wanted to go with me. He wasn't hungry and only wanted maybe a bowl of soup to make him feel a little better. We walked all over the place looking for the internet cafe and people kept sending us in different directions. We asked some people at a resturante' and they told us it was accross the street but went out of business 4 months ago.... so much for that thought.

I was hungry so we were looking for a place to eat. Didn't want anything too expensive, just simple... since James wasn't that hungry. Well, we ended up in a little family run resturante' and sat down... James' soup turned into soup, lasagna, wine, water (it costs money here), then he capped it off with a cappaccino and terimisu. I had clams and mussles saute'd, tortollini with meat, glass of wine, tomato soup (awsome - couldn't keep james out of it), bread, and then topped it off with cappaccino and terimusu. All said and done, we closed out the resturante' for the third night in a row and ended up spending 93 euros. This eating thing is getting costly! But it was good... Let me tell you, to make a comparison is to say Olive garden is to Italian as Taco Bell is to Mexican!

Ok.... On to Day 7!

We got up... of course we did, thats what we do first.. duh!

We were up late again the night before... until 2am again... Those last cappuccino kept me awake! I keep blaming James.... hahahahah! We played cribbage and card games and then decided to sleep. So, we ended up getting up late and almost missing breakfast... but I made it.

We got ready and caught a taxi down to the colloseum.... what a wonder to see.... Rome does it BIG! We walked around the colloseum and checked it out and then James took me to a church that has an underground excavation going on. He saw it on "Digging for the Truth" on Discovery channel. It was cool... basicaly it is rome on top of rome on top of rome...

We then headed back up to the colloseum and forum and spent the rest of the morning and afternoon walking around the forum. We are going to have to finish that up today because it is so big, it can't be done in one day.... and thats what I hear about the vatican.

We then got a Taxi ride over to the pantheon and had lunch\dinner and watched people. James was tired and so we decided to head back to the hotel and just relax for the evening. We walked back and took us a bit of time... but it was fun. We got back to the hotel about 7:00pm and we ended up crashing for the night.... way too much going on....

Another day notched into our travel belt, pictures galore, and good food... what a vacation. James keeps telling me he isn't going back!

Chao!