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Arriving without further acknowledge of how we were going to get to our destination, rain, and not knowing the trains wouldn’t be running at that time, we made a B line for where everyone else seemed to be going, the taxi line and 70 euros later we made it to our AirBnB.

Day 1

Itinerary: Colosseum, and Trevi Fountain

We found that the little store across the street sold bus/metro tickets from reading reviews of our airbnb. Once we figured out how to catch the bus thats right outside our place of stay to the metro and figuring out how to take the metro to our destination haha was fairly easy. Once we exited the metro station there are little shops, we picked up a slice of pizza and found ourselves right in front of the coliseum, it was like a child on christmas giddily opening gifts. 

We got our tickets to the Colosseum, Forum and Palatine Hill. We didn't have to wait too long in line, maybe 25 mins for the colosseum and less than 5 mins for the forum. We stayed and explored the forum and palatine hill until closing. After we headed over to the Trevi Fountain with a quick stop to admire the Altare della Patria.

The fountain was packed, thee most packed place we’ve yet to encounter. But it is a beauty to see non the less, especially with a cone of (Nutella) gelato! YUMM! 

Day 2

Itinerary: ----

Woke up pretty late, and was still somewhat jet lagged from all the travels so we decided to take the day and catch up on some much needed rest and laundry. 

Day 3

Itinerary: Spanish Steps, and Castle Saint Angelo

Today we’re going to explore more of the town, starting with heading to the Spanish Steps. We got off the metro at Flaminio and walked through a beautiful neighborhood that reminded me of San Francisco. Once we made it to Piazza del Popolo, we hung out for a bit under the obelisk admiring all the Egyptian hieroglyphics, which is amazing to see in ROME. 

When you first arrive to the steps you'll find Fontana della Barcaccia, that reminds me of a boat in a way haha (and after just now looking it up the name translates “fountain of the ugly boat”). There is a part of the fountain that has a small walk way like area where we seen a man step into and splashed himself with water during his run, I thought was pretty neat. Looking up to the spanish steps I’d assume they would be a grand sight when seen at its full glory which we weren't able to see since they were under construction haha but the part of the steps that we were able to climb was a workout with a lovely view of the town and the massive church of Trinità dei Monti.

Moving on we came across the Pantheon which was pretty packed, we weren't able to go inside but we did touch the granite columns which were cold haha. Walking through Rome is such an amazing thing to experience I truly felt like i belonged there forever walking down the streets of Rome ... haha I wish. Coming out of the streets alley ways we made it to the crossing of Castel Sant'Angelo, the bridge is full of all kinds of people, tourist, people selling items, and tour guides. Taking a seat on the curb, looking down at the water bellow and people watching on the bridge was a nice little break. 

Day 4

Itinerary: The Vatican

We made our way to the Vatican, found the line and wooooo let me tellllll you haha that line is longer than any line I've ever seen in my life. We followed the winding line for about 20 mins all the way to the front, good thing we bought our tickets before hand all we had to do was wait for our time slot to get in the security line. Once we were in the museum is HUGE! we spend a good 4 hours just getting to the sistine chapel, which by the way is small! smaller than I had ever imagined it would be ... but AMAZING!!! to be able to stand directly under Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam is such a special feeling. Just thinking of the years this thing has been around, the thought of Michelangelo painting, its a sorrel feeling being under it. 

After we made it to the end there was a cafeteria that we grabbed a snack and headed out to the court yard, it was a bit windy and chilly out but it was nice to sit out and admire the yard. We tried to figure out how to get to St. Peters Basilica from the inside, we ended up going back out and around ... we had to go through a security line to get inside so we decided to just admire from that outside, now I wish we would have went inside even if we were tried from the hours of walking and traffic line just to make it to the chapel but we have a whole day of travel by bus the next day so we headed back to call it a night, theres always the future.