As I said before I had a really busy weekend. The next day saturday was exhausting but so much fun and so amazing! Me, Cassie, and Rachal got up super early to meet Francesca (another girl in our group) at the Porta Romana entrance to the city center at 4:45 to catch the 5 a.m. train to Rome. So we were up at 3:15 and ready to go at 4:15. We walked over there and ended up going to the train station called Porta Romana. Francesca's alarm didn't go off so we told her we would meet her in Rome. So we made the very first train to Rome and had to transfer once onto another train to get to the main station Termini in Rome. Once we got there we grabbed some breakfast and then bought our "hop on hop off" bus tour ticket. At about 9 we met Francesca and one of her roommates Mike at the bus and started off on our tour. The tour took about 2 hours and we stayed up on top of the double decker bus the entire time to get good pictures. It was freezing cold and I was completely numb by the end of it but it was a lot of fun. Once we were done with the tour we got off at the Colosseum stop. It was so amazing to see the Colosseum in person! It is so beautiful and breathtaking. Also the Arch of Constatine is right by it and so are the Roman Forums. After walking around and taking a ton of pictures we decided to get some lunch so we met up with some more friends at a restaurant. Ate lunch and then met up with 2 more people from our group and went onto more sightseeing. We saw the place where Ceasar was stabbed to death, the Panthenon, The National Monument to Victor Emanuel II, Trevi Fountain, the Spanish Steps, and the Cathedral they lead up too. At the Spanish Steps we met up with a few more people in our group so by the end of the day there was like 12 or us all together. So we started to head back to Viterbo, got on the metro to get to Termini and from Termini we went all the way home to Viterbo. We got back around 9 and I crashed at like 10 from a very exhausting and fantastic weekend! I will definitely be going back to Rome because we missed a few things such as the Vatican and going inside the Colosseum but for now this is what I have seen in Rome and it was absolutely amazing!
Cassie, Rachal, and I sitting on the Spanish Steps
View of the crowded street from the Spanish Steps
The Spanish Steps
Trevi Fountain
The Pantheon
Monument of Victor Emmanuel II
In front of the Roman Forums
View of Rome from the Monument for Victor Emmanuel II
The place where Julius Ceasar was stabbed to death.
Arch of Constantine
St. Peter's Basilica
The first view of the Colosseum!
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