Day 46: Trying to see the inside of the Vatican, Spanish steps, Pantheon, and walking around

breakfast

Hotel eating area that we had breakfast
every morning

This is the reason that we could not go to the
Vatican there were so many people!!

Me at the Spanish steps

Me on the Spanish steps

Me and Rachale on the Spanish steps

A doggy that made me miss
my Isabell

from the top of the Spanish steps

Today we woke up at 8AM again and got ready and had another wonderful breakfast. We also checked out of the hotel but asked if we could leave our bags there so we did not have to carry them around all day. The hotel put them in a locked closet and we were off in the hotel shuttle again. We started out trying to go see the inside of the Vatican, but did not realize that every last Sunday of the month all churches in Rome are free to the public to come see and so the line to get into the Vatican was even longer than it had been the day before, so we started towards the Spanish Steps. When we got to the Spanish steps we did walk all the way up them which was quite a task. At the top though were lots of painters and the view was beautiful. we walked back down them and walked around the area and we were in fashion heaven because right in front of the Spanish Steps was Prada, Jimmy Choo, Armani, Dior, Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and Valentino! after we had drooled abit at the window displays we walked back up to the station to go to the Pantheon. We had to get off at the station where we had gotten off at for the Trev Fountain and we thought about trying to take a bus there but could not figure out which one to take. We started walking and it really was not as far as we had originally thought, When we got there I was so exited and we went in and I was even more exited because it was exactly how my Art History Professor had described. We took some photos inside and then some outside, after that we just kind of wandered around Rome stopping in shops and having lunch at a little cafe. The other two girls got some pasta and I just tyred to take every drop of it in. We also went and stoped at another Metro station hoping to see more and we walked across a concert and sat there and listened to it for a while. After that we headed back to the hotel to wait to go at 7:00 Pm we got a taxi to take us back to the airport we went through customs again and waited to get on our plain which was supposed to leave at 10:05 but did not leave till 10:50 when we got back to London we had to check in at the boarder again and then went to wait for our easy bus ride back into the city where we had to figure out how to get back to the flat by public bus. We got a little lost but ended up back at our flat at 4:30AM. And that was my trip to Rome, it was short sweet and allot of fun.