Rome part 1 called: Lets visit a Coloseum today

My gosh. Rome. Wow!
Its huge. Not like a big city, but the stuff you see here is HUGE. The coloseum is amazing!! And Matt and I walked around for ever tonight just trying to take it all in. The stuff is so big it doesn't fit in photos!
Its 10:33 pm and I am in a busy loud hostel right now trying to remember my day. I may type it up and cut and paste. Sorry to do that but the internet is only available in the lobby and not the room so I can't think straight.
I think I'll do that. I also took so many photos that I cant' pick to download so I'll work on that too and get it done. tomorrow we go to see the Vatican etc. Thats St. Peters square and the Basillica and the Sistene Chapel etc.
I'm going to go type. Be patient. Its not been easy!! Like I said!
K
Here is the stuff I wrote for Part 1

We got up early and had a nice walk to the train station. We gave ourselves plenty of time and ended up sitting down and waiting. We had some really yummy pastry (of course) croissant filled with custard (of course) so good. We found bread to have a sandwich on the train and it was an easy morning. We had the seats to ourselves until Padua. Then we were joined by an extremely Italian woman (very sweet, and kept talking to Matt in Italian) and her special needs son. Wow. Made a quick trip really long. We were also joined in Florence by a couple of girls and the one didn’t stop talking the entire way. That’s like 2.5 hours. And when we got off the train she was still talking. Wow!

When we got to Rome we knew what metro line to get on and it was really easy and quick!! The city isn't as huge as it seems!

We found our hostel (Lets talk hostel for a quick second) It took 3 times ringing the buzzer to get in adn then we go to the lobby and a real pretty girl was at teh desk surrounded by 2 italian men both being charming and loud and she didn't even acknowlege us for a bit. Matt and I are tired and not in the mood so we just tried to be patient (he did, I about lost it) once we finally got checked in it was like; okay heres your change okay these two beds are yours. And that was it. No reading of the rules etc. Which is helpful when they plan to lock you out from 11-4pm but oh well. We were gone all the day anyways.

So we got our stuff dropped off and then headed to the coloseum. When we were at the ATM getting money we turned around and found that we were looking at the coloseum. It was so close! 2 minutes walk maybe! Awesome!

We walked around it and then decided to go in. The line wasn’t too long. Worth it too! Then we tried our hardest to find the entrance to the forum. Wow. Not easy.; The signs are non existent (after Venice we were spoilt)

We never really made it in there. Maybe tomorrow. Where would an entrace be? Why would they make that so hard?

We did manage to wander all over the place though. This city is pretty easy to get around. Believe it or not.

We had dinner at a nice little place near the coloseum. Pizza for matt and spaghetti for me. Our big Italian waiter was a joke, he was so miserable it was ridiculous. Like really hating life and all of us in his restaurant too, but the others were funny and nice.

Then back to our hostel (hell) so loud and crazy young with kids here. They had a spaghetti dinner and sangria for 3 euro. We missed it. But the kids were all getting drunk from it. Annoying. Even matt thinks so. He’ll be 30 this year.

See I'm not the only fuddy dud here :)