"they always speak, you just have to ask the right question."

my hair is so short.

two week adventure, part II: rome (if you want to).

in rome we stayed at a hostel called the yellow. it had HAIRDRYERS!

our first morning in rome, alex woke up really, really early and went on a blitz through rome... actually wearing running shoes. we ran into him around the colosseum and he had already seen half of the map. the rest of us just went on a walk... we visited some ruins, a few churches, and then had lunch next to the colosseum. after lunch we took a tour of the colosseum, and then a tour of palatine hill (where some caesars were born, and some other ones lived, it's a bunch of ruins). next to palatine hill is the roman forum, which is a big area with ruins of all together. where julius caesar was killed and a few arches and a GIANT warehouse that they turned into a cathedral... interesting stuff that doesn't sound all that interesting in a blog.

(us at the colesseum doing a euro-smile).

we went to the pantheon that evening, which was by far my favorite part of rome. it's just so MASSIVE. i've seen pictures of it before, but it's bigger than that. so impressive. and it's in a neighborhood. it's not on a big busy road, you can't even drive a car on three sides of it because they are walking streets. it just swallows the square that it's in and looks like it's almost touching the buildings around it. the inside is a little disappointing, because it has been turned into a Marian chapel, and there are tons of people in there talking and a loudspeaker booming "be quiet" in six different languages. hard to appreciate anything in that atmosphere.

time for a group dinner/v for vendetta party!