Roma - 2

The next morning, Amanda and my feet hurt from all the walking we did the day/night before, so we started of slow by using the internet across the street from our place to check up with our parents, and track the package with our eurail passes. Since it was Friday, the package would have to be delivered today or else we’d have to wait until Monday - which would mess up our plan of leaving on Sunday. We grabbed some pizza (a daily necessity along with gelato when in Italy) and ate at our apartment. Then we began our second full day in Roma! 1st stop- Trevi Fountain!! We threw our coins in, making wishes that will hopefully come true (we’ll let you know when they do!).

2nd stop- Spanish Steps! Well, actually the amex office to check on our package. Unfortunately, it still wasn’t there. We got on the internet for the second time that day and emailed/chatted with our moms about the passes and how to contact DHL. Amanda’s mom was online talking to us while texting my mom who was on the phone with DHL trying to find a way to get them to deliver on Saturday. It was some great communication between all of us! After a while, there was no new news so Amanda and I decided to get some gelato and enjoy it while sitting on the Spanish Steps- yum : )

It was already close to sunset, so we walked around, finding new places in Rome we haven’t seen like the Piazza del Popolo, then went back to the Trevi Fountain to see it at night. It’s amazing during the day, but even better at night! While on the internet earlier, we googled the Trevi Fountain and found out that if you throw in 2 coins from your right hand over your left shoulder, it’ll bring you romance in the future (although I’m sure you don’t have to throw coins in the Trevi to have romance in the future). We took our coins and threw them in!! (We’ll let you know when the romance happens).

For dinner we had- I bet you could guess- pizza!! Amanda actually had a calzone, which is almost pizza.
The next day, Saturday, was going to be our last day in Rome as long as DHL was kind enough to deliver our passes to the amex office before they closed at noon. We woke up early (7:30!!) and started our day by checking for any news from our parents about the package. Since there was nothing, we decided to go to the Vatican City in the morning and make our way to the Spanish Steps/amex office just before it closes.

We only waited in line for a short while to get into St. Peter’s Basilica. After making it through the metal detectors (with Amanda’s swiss army knife!) we met a lady who told us she was giving a complimentary tour. While waiting for more people to join, she told us some facts about the Basilica and Vatican City. Since we didn’t have much time before we had to get to the amex office and we didn’t want to rush through St. Peter’s Basilica, we went inside without her and admired the church. It amazes me that they could make and design a structure like this so long ago. We have so much more technology and science in the 21st century but don’t make anything as astonishing as what people made thousands of years ago.

We also walked through where the popes have been buried. Although our feet were killing us and Rome has exhausted us over the past few days, we walked across the city to the Spanish Steps- an area we have come to now quite well- crossed our fingers, went to the amex office to check if our passes have been delivered. No luck. We sat on the steps, waiting till just before the office closed, and people watched for a bit. Amanda caught a lady using a magnifying glass to look at her cell phone. When the office closed, they still hadn’t received our passes : ( Stuck in Rome for another day, it could be worse!

The rest of our day was spent taking a very long nap, getting pizza for dinner (of course) and watching a movie on our computer while eating some delicious gelato.
Sunday was now our last full day in Rome. Too bad almost everything is closed on Sundays. We went to the store the night before and bought bread, eggs, and what we thought was butter. Amanda made us French toast! I tried to find an open supermarket to buy some butter, but Sunday is not a good day to go shopping. We meant to make it to the Sistine Chapel on Saturday, but didn’t have enough time so we thought we would go today. Unfortunately, the Chapel is closed on Sunday. How is that I have been to Rome twice and missed out on the Sistine Chapel both times?? We ventured around the city for a little bit, but spent most of the day putting away our laundry which was finally dry after a few days, packing up our stuff, reminiscing on old times while looking through Amanda’s photos, and watching another movie while it rained outside. Tonight was our nice dinner, which meant wine! Amanda ordered lasagna while I ordered pizza and we split them, along with a bottle of Chianti red wine. For dessert we went back to the same gelateria as the day before and Amanda decided that the mint chip and triple chocolate that she ordered was some of the best gelato she has had besides the grapefruit she had in Florence.
On our official last day in Rome, we made more french toast, eggs, and regular toast for breakfast. It was hard to make a decent American breakfast with only a hot plate, but we made it work! Then we dropped our baggage off with Paula and headed off to the amex office. When we checked at 11am, nothing was there for us. We sat on the Spanish Steps for an hour, people watching, then checked in again at 12pm and- tada!!- our package had arrived!! We opened it up and read the letters from our families (yay!) then got our baggage and left for the train station! Now we’re on our way to Firenze for a night, where we plan on enjoying some yummy pizza and gelato! Pretty soon we’ll be out of Italy and done with the food, so we have to enjoy it while we still can!
Thanks moms for all your help with the passes, we love you!
Ciao Ciao for now,
A&A