Day: 18

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Well this morning I continued my trend of waking up early at around 7 am. I ate breakfast and set out to find my way to the airport to pickup my brother Matt and his friend Dan. I found my way to the arrival terminal around 10am, looked at the arrival board, and guess what? That’s right, his plane is two hours late! Bummer, but its not like it mattered, I really don’t have anywhere I have to be, so I went to the bookstore and found a copy of Huck Finn, bought a cappuccino, and settled in for my three hour wait.

When they finally arrived it was around 12:45 and I was growing impatient, so we grabbed the train and headed back to my hostel to see if we could find them a couple of beds. We couldn’t, the next place we tried was also full. Finally, we went to a little hotel about 2 blocks from where I am staying and found them a double room for 38 euro for both of them. That’s less than the 23 euro I’m paying at the hostel so they weren’t to disappointed, but they where hungry. We went over to a pizza place at the end of the street and ordered two slices each, little did we know that a slice was about the size of a small American pizza. We got so stuff we could barely make the 20 minute walk to see the inside of the coliseum.

About 2/3 of the way into central Rome we hear “Satisfaction” booming from the back of a van filled with speakers and find ourselves in the middle of a Italian Communist Party march. It was fun and Matt kept trying to get pictures with a communist flag around him. We spent the rest of the afternoon/evening looking at all kinds of tourist sites like the coliseum, the Fontana di Trevi(also pictured above), and a grip of churches that Matt kept leading us into during the middle of their mass. I dropped them off at their hotel, told them I would meet them tomorrow at 8:30 and I headed back to my hostel to do some picture/blog work.