Travel Tuesday: Roman Sites

After our tour in the Coliseum, we got a tour of the Roman Forum and were then split into groups and sent on a scavenger hunt to find some of Romes most famous landmarks. We Found:

The Forum 

The Spanish Steps

Vittorio Emanuele II Monument

The Trevi Fountain

The Pantheon

Piazza Navona

Bucket List: Eat Spaghetti in Italy

This was on the top of my bucket list before I went to Italy.  I checked this off of my list on our second day in Rome.  We had Spaghetti in for lunch at a restaurant that was actually in a basement.  It was an adorable restaurant and the Spaghetti was so good!

This is the only picture I could find from the restaurant but it was cute!

Spaghetti <3 Yumm

 I am really, really picky about my spaghetti sauce, and this stuff was amazing! I really wish I had written down the names of the restaurants that we ate at because I would love to return to this one!

Travel Tuesday: The Coliseum

Our second day in Rome was heavy with sightseeing!  We ate breakfast at the hotel; crissonts and toast (we thought the crissonts were super cute but by the end of the trip we never wanted to see one again).

Our first stop was the Coliseum.   It was so surreal seeing the coliseum in person!  It is so much bigger than it looks in pictures!

I am pretty sure I took a million and one pictures!

Because we were with People to People, we didn't have to wait in line.  We met up with our guide and went inside immediately at our scheduled time, which was nice.

I loved visiting the Coliseum, it was one of my favorite parts of our trip.

*Sidenote*  I hate all of the pictures of myself from this trip because I am at my heaviest weight ever.  I debated for a long time about whether or not I was going to post them on here but decided to suck it up and do it.

Next up is the scavenger hunt, during which we saw the Spanish Steps, Pantheon, and Trevi Fountain.

Rome, The First Night

Our first night in Rome was eventful to say the least!  First, we realized while in the airport in Germany, that 5 people in our group were on a different flight than the rest of us and would arrive about 2 hours prior.  Luckily, our DM was there to meet them and they got a few extra hours in Rome, lucky!

When we got to Rome, we collected our bags, met Josef then headed straight to dinner.  We had dinner at a small restaurant right next the the coliseum!

During dinner, we noticed this guy who looked gay and we were sitting there trying to figure out if he was.  Then out of nowhere we hear the Spice Girls song "Wannabe" playing really loudly.   Then we start seeing "floats".  Turns out there was a gay pride parade going around the coliseum!  It was definitely a unique start to our time in Rome!

After our exciting dinner (I can't even tell you what we had because we were so interested in the parade) we ended up stopping at a random spot because we had issues with our bus, the bus and the driver changed at that point and we ended up sitting for a while.

 

After that was settled we finally went to our hotel and crashed for the night!  We were seriously jet lagged and went right to sleep!

Our Hotel was called Rouge et Noir.  It definitely wasn't the best hotel we stayed in but it wasn't the worst either.  And honestly we couldn't have cared less, we were exhausted!

That concludes our first night in Roma.