ciao from Roma!!!
wow a lot has happened since switzerland and finally i have a keyboared that isn’t retarted besides the apostrophies. so this may be easier to read.
we were woken up in switzerland to a heard of cows and their bells crossing the road in our mt. side hotel. we got on our death bus with our crazy italian driver clautia who doesn’t speak any english and she listens to headphones and text messages while she is driving, she has almost killed us about 100 times, no joke, everyone complains about her, i kinda just thought it was me. also, our airconditioning doesnàt work on the bus so i’m really hurting.
anyway we stopped on the way to venice in Verona and i didn’t feel to well, and also wasn’t in a good mood but i did see Juliets balcony from romeo & juliet. then we sat in about 4 hours of traffic on our way to a winary just outside of the venice. i ended up buying some wine. i’m very excited for it.
so as we pull up to our hotel in this small seaside resort outside of venice our tour director tells us that this we are not allowed to open our windows because there was a tour group two years ago who had people climb up to their balcony break in while they were sleeping, mase them and rob them… so all of us were a little freaked out.
We got up early to catch our water taxi to venice, and half the group didnàt make it because they all went out the night before. we got a guided tour of venice and which Nathan, yanel, leslie, kellie and i were definently NOT paying attention too. so we dicked around and took pictures. then we had a glass blowing demonstration and a few of us went to Doges palace. Lauren and I decided we wanted to find some black risoto and we were on a mission. so of course we find the most expenisve place possible and we split a risoto (thanks dad!) it was amazing. then about six of us got a gondola and took a 40 minute ride around the canals. i’m so glad we did this, it was sooooo much fun. so after that kellie and decided to go shopping, so look out friends i have lots of gifts!!!! we made the water taxi home and Nathan, yanel, leslie, kellie and i grabbed dinner some beers and headed to the beach for the evening.
Nathan being from Texas had never seen an ocean. so we were all there to experience his first time, or as leslie likes to call it, we popped his ocean cherry! haha.so us girls hung out on the beach and took pictures while nathan was mesmorized by the ocean and swimming in it. after about an hour lauren and katherine came running down the beach each with a bottle of cheap wine in their hands screaming at us. so they came and drunkenly entertained us. that was a great night.
Nathan walked me home while the rest of the group went to find a phone and a grocery store. we had a really good talk and ended up running into a bunch of people and sat on the balcony in his room and talked til the girls came home. And i finally got a hold of sam and stayed up pretty late on the phone, just to get up at 630 to leave for Roma!!!
We got to rome on wednesday, i came to the internet cafe with nathan we probably sat here for a good hour and a half ran back to change before we went on a walking tour of the city and to the 
Trevi fountain and the spanish steps. then we hopped in a taxi to Piazza Navona to meet CAITLIN whitham my little chi o baby and some of her friends who are studying architecture in rome for the summer and got some gilato! after that nathan, yanel, leslie, kellie and i hung out in the piazza for about another hour and just wondered around before we got a taxi and headed hom late.
Yesterday, we had a tour of the coloseum and ruins, we got these awful headsets that i couldnàt hear anything, so since i’d already seen it i gave mine to kellie, because she forgot hers and nathan gave me his ipod, and everyone was looking at me funny cuz i wasn’t paying attention,b ut oh my god it was so amazing to be listening to great music and wondering around these ancient ruins! i loved it. we took the bus half way home and got out and walked the rest because there was too much traffic. i was feeling 
very sick i was neaseus all day and threw up six times over the period of the day so i was not feeling up to the pub crawl with the rest of the group. so we got home fromt he ruins around 130 and i slept until around 630 when i wokeup to see when the girls were leaving for the pub crawl and helped them get ready.
Nathan and I found a place to eat dinner across the street from our hotel, i was still feeling sick but for some reason pasta and a glass of wine sounded really good. so i ordered the 10 euro glass of something from under the Grappe section’- well i came to find out Grappe doesnàt mean GRAPE as in WINE i ordered god only knows but all i can say is it didn’t help me being neasous. so nathan grabbed the check and we decided to just walk through the city, so we walked back to the trevi fountain and ended up hanging out there for about three hours and talking before we got lost and made our way back to the hotel around 1 am. a bunch of people were sitting outside our hotel waiting to watch all the pub crawl people to come home so we hung out outside to wait for his sister and the lelsie and kellie to come home. and they didnàt get home til around 145 so we went and changed and into our pjs and continued to hang out outside for everyone.
this morning was great becasue we had an optional to go to the caticombs, and you had to pay in advance, well everyone was soooo hungover that about 15 of us went! they had to combine us with the other group because so many people slept through it. but it was amazing. we went under ground and saw millions of tumbs of ancient christians. really cool, and boy was it cold down there, i was in heaven. it has been sooooo hot here.
we had about an hour before the bus left for vatican city. it was about 105 today i sweat to god, and we all had to have pants, skirts or shorts to atleast our knees and something over our shoulders. so we went to the vatican museum and i hung out with kim and jenna in the museum for the afternoon, i was sad to leave my group but it was great to hango ut with kim and jenna, i donàt get to much since they are in the other tour group. but we went to the sisteen chapel and then booked it out of there because we had a bout an hour and 15 minutes to make it to st. peters and back before the bus left. so we kinda rushed it, which was sad. it was cool to be in vatican city again, because nathan and i switched books (even though im not done with mine yet, he reads really fast) and he gave me angels & Demons which all takes place in Vatican city. so it was fun to be walking around there.
anyway well nathan yanel, leslie and kellie ended up missing the bus, and i figured they would when they all started listening to the audio tour in the vatican museum. jenna kima nd i didnàt listen to anything and just walked straight through and it took us an hour and a half!! so i wasnàt surprised because nathan was really excited to see all that stuff. so we came home and tried to find a laundry place but thats a no go, so here i am. i really want to try to go to the coloseum tonight and see it lit up. so iàll try to drag nathan or someone to go with me. but weàre off to florence in the morning i cant wait to shot!! im almost done buying for everyone else, which means i can just focus on me!!!!!!!
man i cant wait to be in air conditioning!!! hope all is well at home!
ciao
