Well as you all know I have A LOT of time on my hands. So I created an hour by hour schedule for Adam and I for our trip to Rome starting on Friday morning. So if anyone needing to go to Rome needs help I'm your girl. After our wonderful breakfast in bed at the B&B we headed to the Colosseum. Word to the wise, buy your ticket to the colosseum online, it covers the Colosseum, Palentine Hill, and the Roman Forum. The line just to buy a ticket was probably 3 hours long, in the 100 degree heat. If you forget to buy your ticket online, go to Palentine Hill to buy your ticket. It's the same for all three places and I think there was 1 person in line. Huge time saver for everyone. Ok so back on track. Adam and I bypassed the ridiculous line at the Colosseum and walked right in. I was hoping for the wow factor when seeing this place but unfortunately the first thought in my head was...wow it looks like Bush Stadium hahahaha. It's amazing to see inside. There are tons of plaques on the wall to explain all the different areas. Also, you can do what we did. Find someone who is wearing the headset walking tour and follow them. They always have it turned up so loud that you can hear everything. I think we freaked out a few people but whatever. We also stopped and listened in on a few guides as well. They don't care. In the Colosseum they have a partially built floor that shows what the battle ground looked like. Under that was the basement area where all the animals were kept, which is the exposed area in the picture below.
The Colosseum
Inside the Colosseum
I love that there are so many tourists running around. They will always ask you to take their picture and then offer to take yours as well.
The long side of the colosseum
This is the floor I was talking about above. Thats what the floor would have looked like where the battles were played out. The basement below with broken down walls is where the animal's were kept for the battles.
Us on the top floor looking over the whole Colosseum
After wondering around the Colosseum we headed to the closest neighborhood and found a local place to eat lunch. This is where Adam got an enormous ball of mozzarella in his Caprese salad. It was awesome, he did let me have a taste of it =) In the corner you can see some of my pizza, it had mushrooms and italian sausage and it was delisch!!
Next was the Roman Forum and Palentine Hill. These two area's are connected so you don't have to exit one to go to the other which is awesome. They are also right across the street from the Colosseum so we can get more pictures. We went by ourselves, no tour so we just walked around the ruins and Adam took pictures of everything. There were lots of old buildings and amphitheater ruins. We were able to find some shaded spots to hangout in which was very very awesome. In the Farnese gardens they had lemon and orange trees growing and I practically had to hold both of Adam's hands to keep him from picking and eating them. I don't know if it's against the rules but I'm not letting him get me thrown out for it! We ended close to the museum so we walked through there for a little air conditioning and exited through the front which was a great picture shot of it. After finishing up there we walked back through the shopping district to stroll around. It's what people do here apparently!
The view of the Colosseum from the front of the Roman Forum/Palentine Hill
The orange trees that I had to keep Adam from stealing oranges. The kid cannot control himself around fresh food. On our hike up Utliberg in switzerland there were raspberries growing and he would just pick them and eat them!
The Roman Forum
Palentine Hill area
I think this was part of an old ampitheater, Adam was stoked. Not sure if you can get on this so he ran and did!
The Roman Forum Area
The Roman Forum Area
More ruins at the Roman Forum, this is where you exit and end up at the museum.
I have dinner scheduled for 8:30pm on in Rome. Dinner starts for the early birds and tourists around 7pm but all the local's and lively people it's around 9pm and later. After cleaning up...we head over to Gusto for dinner. Another recommendation to us. The melon & pruscuitto salad and bruschetta start us off and then a plate of local cheeses and meats. We were still full from pizza and pasta at lunch so we decided to try some traditional appetizers instead. All wonderful!!! Plus the nights in Rome are completely different than the day time. It cools off so much that it feels wonderful outside, probably to the 70's. Of course there is more walking around then off to bed finally around midnight. We have to save our feet for the next day...The Vatican!! As my friend Emileigh says..."Your in Rome...why would you sleep" hahahaha!
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