Italy Day 7: Rome FINALLY

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Labels: italy

After I finished pumping we loaded up the book bag and headed back out. Originally when we had booked the trip we had planned on exploring the Colosseum area on our own anyway, so really this new plan was actually our original plan. I felt MUCH less stress knowing that we were getting a refund for the tour and that Zach wasn't upset about how everything had worked out. We hopped on the subway to get our Rome on...here's our stop for our hotel, we got to know it well :) It's like the subway was some type of time travel machine...as soon as we stepped out of it BAM we're back in time :) We exited the metro station and were standing directly in front of the Colosseum! My Frommer's guidebook suggested viewing the Forum first as the tickets for the Forum also got you entrance into the Colosseum and it isn't usually as crowded. Of course, there was NO signage to lead us to the Forum. We were clueless. We wandered around and ended up going up this MASSI...