This weekend, on the 21st, we took our first trip to Rome. We had planned to use these special day trip tickets we can get through our rail station to go see the Vatican. Later we found out that the group was taking one of the paid trips to Roma, which made more sense. We will do the Vatican later. We took a long train ride, and a metro and wound up at the Coliseum. How do you describe something that is 2 millennia old? The entire trip was full of marble covered everything and Kevin was just drinking in all the history. It was a bit of a bummer that we did not get to go inside for our tour because people were late, but we will have more opportunities to go back. We saw a lot of different ancient Roman ruins, and we took a lot of pictures. It was hard to hear what our guide was saying sometimes because there were so many people talking in our group and not paying attention. That was frustrating, so we tried to get right up to the front of the line all of the time. I think the tour guide thought I was stalking her. We saw the Trevy Fountain, and I came up with a slogan for it. I think that they should adopt it: “The Trevy Fountain: It looks natural, but it’s Ren Faire!” We decided that we should go to lunch with other USAC-ers in order to keep together and get to the train station on time and still get to see other spots in Rome. The group had like 15 people in it by the time we took off, so finding a place to eat and deciding where to go was a problem: too many cooks in the kitchen. Eventually, the group split off and we saw some different architecture and took pictures of everything. Our feet were killing us by the end of the day. We had a ton of gelato, though, which I hear is the way to heal every ailment. Eventually we hooked up with two other groups of people and made our way back to the train station and home. We made a nice little simple meal and watched a movie and went to bed. I fell asleep at 10:30. That is the second earliest since we’ve been here (the earliest being our first night here.). I put up a lot of pictures, so have fun.