Roma

Off to Italy! Went through about 14 hours of boring to get here, so u better be interesting Italy!
ps- Swiss Airlines is great and our guy that took our tickets was a cutie.



The gelato here is amazing. I have had two and its the first day. Just thought i should state that first. Second, we slept most of the day today because of jet-lagg but i found out that my flat iron works here which made me happy because its the first international flat-iron that has not blown out on me. I was catching a little cold when i woke up then my dad gave me an Alka'scltzer to help, which had drastic side-effects. Needless to say, i was sleeping in the Italian Post Office when we were waiting for currency. just a side note, here in Italy time doesn't matter...it took ONLY about 3 hours to get exchange. Then, we headed to get our Euro-rail pass confirmed and on the way while dodging several tiny wanna-be smart cars and vespas dad almost got hit by a bus. It was a close one, considering here they drive like friken mario cart wii. So we got our passes stamped so we can head to Florence and Venice later on this trip. After that, we were very hungry so mom ripped out her handy dandy rick steve's guide and me and my dad sat there in embarrassment because she looks like a little tourist with her sun-visor and maps and such. Needless to say, we found a little restaurant and it was good the pasta was alright, i still think my grammie's is better but this is only the first place we have eaten here. We proceeded to the grocery store to get bread, this was mom's idea because the food is pricey here. We walked into this semi-creepy warehouse type thing that was a grocery store and this Italian guy proceeds to tell mom that it closes in five minutes, well instead of turning around and coming back later she ran inside down the stairs and we all followed shaking our heads. She got some bread but was too late for the lunch-meat because they had closed those cases. I spotted some Ritz crackers so we grabbed those too. Mom checked out and we headed over to the gelato stand. I bought the family gelato because it was my turn to break my bills. It was yummy as usual. After, we headed up to the room. Im tired and gotta wake up early to tour the Vatican museum in the morn. So excited, although im not Catholic. haha Maybe ill see the Pope? alrighty then, i will update tomorrow if i do not forget but i can not make any promises. :)


Ciao!