(Rob)

Today was amazing, but as usual is started out pretty boring day. I woke up and took a quick shower at the hostel. I packed up all my things in my backpack again and headed out. I am starting to feel better, hopefully by tomorrow I will be

 completely healthy. I head down the road and stop at a pharmacy because my lip is dry and cracking for no apparent reason. I don’t find any so I ask; once again luckily someone spoke English. They give me this lipstick tube and I am thinking, no way, but it actually was chap-

stick. I also bought some crackers cookie things for breakfast. In Germany they were called dinkel doppel kekks or something like that. I head down to the subway to head to my hotel. After some train switching and a taxi I get to the Sheraton Roma. It is a very nice hotel. The Hostel I was in could fit in the lobby a few times over. I changed into my suit and talked with the event manager about the conference center for awhile. After the work was done it was time for me to go back to the tourist thing. It’s about 1430 when I head back into town. The first place I go is the Coliseum. This place is amazing, and huge. 

I can’t do it justice by just showing a picture and talking about it. Everyone should see this place. There are all these guys dressed in old Roman Gladiator garb, even some in Caesar outfits.

After the tour and staring in awe it is about 1630 and I am getting hungry. 

As I look for a restaurant I go by some type of demonstration. There was a police line and everything.

I find a restaurant, but it is empty, just no customers. I think I am eating at a different time than everyone else does.

I have Caprese and a Torentio Pizza.

 Wow, delicious. 

Did I mention I had a bottle of wine as well? I was feeling pretty good when I finished.

 Then I went to pay and none of my cards worked, uh-oh. I don’t know what else to do so I offer to leave some ID and go try to pull out some cash. It was a very awkward situation. Lucky for me I’m able to pull cash out so all is well.

After eating I head out to do some more touring near the Coliseum. I checked out the Palatine area and some other areas nearby, I forgot to take pictures as I was walk, sorry. 

As I got towards the end an Australian couple asked me to take some pictures. I snapped a few and they snapped a few of me in return.

Today has been a great day. J