Friday 15th: We woke up in Rome after getting into our hotel late the night before. The group in our hotel room consisted of Chris, Katie, Justin, and myself. I was expecting the worst when we booked a one star hotel but I was pleasantly surprised on how nice it was. The only down side of the hotel was a shared floor bathroom in no air conditioning, something easy to get over when you are paying ridiculously low prices for four nights in Rome. Anyways, we woke up around 8am Friday because our group was determined to make the most out of every one of our days. From the hotel we walked to the metro station and purchased a 3 day pass for the metro, it cost about 20 USD but we took the metro everywhere during our trip. We used Friday to see the holy parts of Rome. Unfortunately we did not get to speak with the Pope but we did visit the Vatican, St. Peters Basilica, and the Sistine Chapel. I thought it was really interesting that guards check your outfit before you can enter St. Peters Basilica, and anyone who does not fit their dress code is not allowed in. Katie, who seemed dressed fine, was not allowed in and was not very happy about it. We spent most of our time that day at the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican Museum was there and it took us around 3 hours to walk through it all. That night we bought amazing pizza across from our hotel and enjoyed the warm Rome evening.
Saturday 16th Our Saturday started much like our Friday ended, by getting pizza. I will admit I had pizza on six different occasions during our trip to Rome. It was a combination of it being the cheapest and easiest food available but it was also some of the best pizza I have ever had. We used Saturday to visit the forum and the Colosseum. We used a free tour that guided us from the Spanish steps to the Colosseum. The tour guide was kind of quiet and hard to understand but it was nice to see the city on foot. After walking around the incredible ruins of the forum we headed towards the Colosseum. The Colosseum was exactly the way I had always imagined it would be and it felt great being there. Its one of those places I had seen growing up hundreds of times in movies, books, etc and never thought id actually be there. Our group took a great O-H-I-O picture in the Colosseum, and what do you know, we met a fellow Buckeye alum there. We returned to the hotel that night exhausted and sun burnt and waited for the hot sun to go down before we went for dinner. We all got delicious pasta dishes at an authentic Italian restaurant and finished the night off by eating gellato under a lit up Colosseum.
Friday 15th: We woke up in Rome after getting into our hotel late the night before. The group in our hotel room consisted of Chris, Katie, Justin, and myself. I was expecting the worst when we booked a one star hotel but I was pleasantly surprised on how nice it was. The only down side of the hotel was a shared floor bathroom in no air conditioning, something easy to get over when you are paying ridiculously low prices for four nights in Rome. Anyways, we woke up around 8am Friday because our group was determined to make the most out of every one of our days. From the hotel we walked to the metro station and purchased a 3 day pass for the metro, it cost about 20 USD but we took the metro everywhere during our trip. We used Friday to see the holy parts of Rome. Unfortunately we did not get to speak with the Pope but we did visit the Vatican, St. Peters Basilica, and the Sistine Chapel. I thought it was really interesting that guards check your outfit before you can enter St. Peters Basilica, and anyone who does not fit their dress code is not allowed in. Katie, who seemed dressed fine, was not allowed in and was not very happy about it. We spent most of our time that day at the Sistine Chapel, the Vatican Museum was there and it took us around 3 hours to walk through it all. That night we bought amazing pizza across from our hotel and enjoyed the warm Rome evening.
Saturday 16th Our Saturday started much like our Friday ended, by getting pizza. I will admit I had pizza on six different occasions during our trip to Rome. It was a combination of it being the cheapest and easiest food available but it was also some of the best pizza I have ever had. We used Saturday to visit the forum and the Colosseum. We used a free tour that guided us from the Spanish steps to the Colosseum. The tour guide was kind of quiet and hard to understand but it was nice to see the city on foot. After walking around the incredible ruins of the forum we headed towards the Colosseum. The Colosseum was exactly the way I had always imagined it would be and it felt great being there. Its one of those places I had seen growing up hundreds of times in movies, books, etc and never thought id actually be there. Our group took a great O-H-I-O picture in the Colosseum, and what do you know, we met a fellow Buckeye alum there. We returned to the hotel that night exhausted and sun burnt and waited for the hot sun to go down before we went for dinner. We all got delicious pasta dishes at an authentic Italian restaurant and finished the night off by eating gellato under a lit up Colosseum. 
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