Thursday morning, I woke up to Aryn waking me up, telling me she couldn’t get out of the room. The night before, the door handle had fallen off while I was coming in, but we were still able to stick it in and open the door, so it w
as no big deal. Somehow, overnight, the notch we stuck the handle on had gotten pushed farther into the door, so we couldn’t get the handle on anymore. We were completely stuck in the room. I told Aryn to try opening the window, but there was a screen that only budged a few inches – definitely not enough to climb out of. Also, it was 6 am at the time, so finding a passerby to open the door for us from the outside was highly unlikely. My solution: I got up out of bed and pried the screen off the window so Aryn could climb out. After that, I passed out on my bed again for another hour. When I got up at 7, Aryn had set up someone to come and fix our door and we went and got breakfast at the hostel restaurant. We left around 9 to meet a couple of our friends, Kim and Lindsay, from school at the Colosseum. We took the shuttle, then the tram, and then the metro and arrived at the Colosseum around 10:15
. We found them pretty quickly and got in line right away. After about a half hour wait, we got in! The Colosseum was so cool! It was really neat just being there and realizing how old it is. We stayed there for a while and then left to see the Forum and Palatine. It was so fun seeing Rome with Kim and Lindsay. I love those girls. After we finished seeing all the ruins, it was time for some lunch. Lindsay and Aryn got some Chinese food, but Kim and I were hoping to find an authentic little family-owned Italian place, so we split up. We ended up being successful and found a small place where we ate delicious Ragu. After lunch, gelato was necessary, of course. We found a place that had about a million flavors – I had Nutella, Oreo, and something that looked like S’mores, but wasn’t. So. Delicious! Later, we met up again with Lindsay and Aryn and walked around again before seeing the Pantheon church. After that, we saw Trevi Fountain, and then headed to meet up with someone Kim knew and her friend. They are studying in Rome now, so they offered to bring us to their favorite restaurant for pizza. They were super nice and the pizza was delicious. We got gelato one last time before the night was over and then, after some transportation complications, Aryn and I got back to our hostel to rest after such a fun day. I would definitely say the second day of Rome was the best so far. I packed up my stuff and got ready to see my parents the next day and then went to bed.
as no big deal. Somehow, overnight, the notch we stuck the handle on had gotten pushed farther into the door, so we couldn’t get the handle on anymore. We were completely stuck in the room. I told Aryn to try opening the window, but there was a screen that only budged a few inches – definitely not enough to climb out of. Also, it was 6 am at the time, so finding a passerby to open the door for us from the outside was highly unlikely. My solution: I got up out of bed and pried the screen off the window so Aryn could climb out. After that, I passed out on my bed again for another hour. When I got up at 7, Aryn had set up someone to come and fix our door and we went and got breakfast at the hostel restaurant. We left around 9 to meet a couple of our friends, Kim and Lindsay, from school at the Colosseum. We took the shuttle, then the tram, and then the metro and arrived at the Colosseum around 10:15
. We found them pretty quickly and got in line right away. After about a half hour wait, we got in! The Colosseum was so cool! It was really neat just being there and realizing how old it is. We stayed there for a while and then left to see the Forum and Palatine. It was so fun seeing Rome with Kim and Lindsay. I love those girls. After we finished seeing all the ruins, it was time for some lunch. Lindsay and Aryn got some Chinese food, but Kim and I were hoping to find an authentic little family-owned Italian place, so we split up. We ended up being successful and found a small place where we ate delicious Ragu. After lunch, gelato was necessary, of course. We found a place that had about a million flavors – I had Nutella, Oreo, and something that looked like S’mores, but wasn’t. So. Delicious! Later, we met up again with Lindsay and Aryn and walked around again before seeing the Pantheon church. After that, we saw Trevi Fountain, and then headed to meet up with someone Kim knew and her friend. They are studying in Rome now, so they offered to bring us to their favorite restaurant for pizza. They were super nice and the pizza was delicious. We got gelato one last time before the night was over and then, after some transportation complications, Aryn and I got back to our hostel to rest after such a fun day. I would definitely say the second day of Rome was the best so far. I packed up my stuff and got ready to see my parents the next day and then went to bed.
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