Italia

Highlights:
Last day in Rome!
We went early to the trevi fountain around 8 am by metro. It was not crowded at all and the fountain was still off. We got to watch the workers suck and sweep the coins up and theN turn on the fountain.
We saw a British family there. The mom was taking pictures of the daughter who wasn’t happy with any of them. We suspected that it was because she wasn’t smiling. The mom kept trying to give her tips whichshe wasn’t following. I guess smiling wasn’t one of them because she didn’t smile in any of hers either! It was weird.
Them we went to the Spanish steps and climbed up and down them and sat on them for a while. We saw a guy holding/feeding pigeons.
Then we saw the pantheon. The dome was amazing and we saw the tomb of rafael.
We walked to piazza navona and had lunch at this sketchy pizzeria. We thoughtthat thee would be some catch/fee since it was cheaper than everywhere else, by there wasn’t. In fact they didn’t even check to see if we had left a tip. They just continued on so we took back the tip we had left on he table. We later found out that locAls are bad tippers. We had barely been tipping ten percent and we were being met with surprise.
We then walked back to the hostel.
We reAd French cosmo that our roomate had left behind. Did you know that Eva longoria, besides being an actress, owns two restaurants, a nighclub, a perfume, and a production company with rightsto many books to make into movies.
Then we wentto another church we had heard about and while I enjoyed the beautiful mosaics, joanna went and saw the excavations of two ancient buildings/churches which had been built over.
Then we went and saw another relatively unknown church called the scala Santa which was magnificent.
Then we had delicious two euro gelato.
Then we returned to the hostel, bought our dinner at a pizza rustica for two euros each and recharged my sim card
We ate dinner on the roof and hung out with anemplouee named frido who used to live in Denmark. He told us about how he drank a liter of milk and then we discussed whether or not his man-purse was real prada (it had been a gift). We decided it was definitely fake.
Then we talked to some people from Denmark and then I wrote this post.
Our train leaves Rome tomorrow at 7:30 for Naples
Btw, one of our roommates is a teacher from Worcester, MA!!! I know, small world!
Ok goodnight ( or good afternoon. Ahh it’s like that Oreo commercial withths father and son in different timezone).

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