Jeremy and I headed to Rome over my spring break, and it was wonderful! We had a great time, and it was definitely something we will remember for the rest of our lives. We did tons of stuff in the five days we were there. Here are some of the highlights:
*The Vatican: we visited the Vatican and took a guided tour through Viator Signing up for the tour was one of the best things we did–we got to skip the huge line to get inside, and our tour guide was wonderful. It was so interesting and we got little head sets so we didn’t have to stay right next to her the entire time, and we still had her little voice in our head. After doing St. Peter’s, the Sistene Chapel etc, we headed over to the Castle San Angelo for some great views.
*We went to Ostia Antica to see the ruins there. Not only did we manage to navigate the metro and then the train to get there, but we had a great time wandering around the ruins. It started pouring while we were there, so you know if we had a good time in the pouring rain its pretty neat. (Not that the rain didn’t get a little old at the end of hour two). One of the highlights was searching for the ancient bathrooms of the city.
*Churches–we went to practically every church in Rome, and Jeremy took pictures inside each and every one of them. They are truly amazing. I played a little game I like to call “find the dead guy” while Jeremy took pictures of the architecture. (In this game you get extra points for an exposed body, every church in rome has people buried in it).
*The Colosseum–One of the neat things about our hotel was that we would turn a corner and randomly see the Colosseum at the end of the street. Jeremy downloaded Rick Steeve’s audio tours for both the Colosseum and the Roman Forum, and they were helpful and interesting.
*The Forum–here the audio tours were really nice to have, as it is pretty hard to tell what the bits of the buildings used to be. We went to Palatine Hill after doing the forum.
We also ate tons of gelato, which was one of my favorite things about the trip. I can also cross out another item from my list, learn enough italian to get around italy, as we obviously were able to do that (though not as easily as I would have liked) Grazi! Prego! Gelato! Buon Giornio!
Most of the time Jeremy took pictures, so I have only a few on my camera. Here is one of us, from the top of the Emmanuel monument. You can see the overcast skies that we had for much of our trip–but look! Its the Colosseum in the background! 
