The Colosseum and Circus Maximus

Two weekends ago we took a trip to the Colosseum. I always had a picture in my mind of what it would be like, and the actual structure was completely different to what I had imagined. It was like an actual stadium! As I was walking up the stairs to the top level I felt as if I was going to a bears game. Even the inside seemed to be like a giant sports stadium. I now know what modern sports arenas modeled their buildings after. It was fun learning about everything that took part there, and how there were actual turnstiles to count how many people came to watch the Games! I thought that was so cool. This Sunday I went running at Circus Maximus something that I have always wanted to do. It was uncanny to believe that so many chariot races took place there, and I got the ability to go run in the same place.

The Roman forum

This past weekend we took a trip to the Roman Forum. I had an idea in my mind from books and pictures of what it would look like, and when I got there I was completly blown away! I did not realize how massive ancient Rome was. All of the buildings that were still standing were built so well that it didn't even look like time touched them. You could still even see the mason stamps on some of the stone walls. It was memorizing to see all of the gardens and fountains that the Romans built, and its amazing to see how advanced they were in technology. One of the coolest things was you could still see a game board stamped into one of the ancient steps! Everything was almost perfect!!

The Vatican

After a very long day of classes, reading an art history book, and typing my first philosophy paper I just could not wait for another amazing dinner at our hotel! We had this awesome pizza made with veggies and some of the best gelato ever! Well...needless to say my friends and I decided that we needed to walk off what we ate, so we went on a little adventure to the Vatican. Its so cool that we can just go to the Vatican to have our evening stroll. Well anyway once we got there the site was simply breath taking!! There weren't that many people in the square so we all just pretty much took charge of the holy site. There was a fountain spewing holy water for the public to have, and like good catholic girls we thought that drinking the water would make us more divine. There is also another picture of my friend Christina and I pretending to be statues in front of the Vatican. We all just in awe of where we were and had to take in the moment, and at a little silly in front of where the pope lives. Most of the pictures that you are seeing are of the Pope's home....which is where I would love to live! It is just a massive place, and it is completly crazy that people actually get to live in there. I have also included a little video that I took while we were there. I know that you cannot see our faces, but the light up Vatican at night needed to be on film.Well needless to say our evening walk tonight was one to put in the record books. Its not everyday you can say that I just decided to the Vatican to walk off that extra slice of pizza and gelato.