We Came, We Saw, We Crawled

Sorry there was no post yesterday, the computers we were using wouldn't let us log in to blogger. The pub crawl was a good time, we met a group of five Canadian girls (one of whom got friendly enough with Newfie John that we didn't end up sharing a room with him that night afterall), and a bunch of guys from the British Military. The title of this post comes from the backs of our souvenir t-shirts. And that's all I have to say about that.

Yesterday we visited Vatican City, climbed the 400+ stairs to the top of the dome (we could have reduced the number to 320 by paying an extra 3€ for the lift, but we're far too hardcore for that), and wandered around the Square. We did not go to the Sistine Chapel because neither of us felt up to standing in another line only to pay 8€ to be herded like cattle for 3 hours through more art than a person could ever appreciate (I heard that if you were to spend one minute on ever item in the Vatican Museum you would be there 1400 hours) only to be released into the Sistine Chapel, full of other cranky people and cranky scary Italian guards barking "no pictures!" every few minutes. This was the description I gave to Michelle, and she agreed that it simply was not worth it.

We went back to our hostel, which is named Fawlty Towers, and sat in the TV room, watching some Fawlty Towers and planning our next few days. In the evening we wandered from Piazza Del Popolo down Via Del Corso, saw Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon, the Memoriale of Vittorio Emmanuele II, and the Colosseum all lit up, before returning to our hostel to enjoy a bottle of wine on the Terrace, which is very quiet and nice, and smells of jasmine.

This morning we got up early, enjoyed a breakfast of baguette, cream cheese and strawberries, and of course Nutella, and then headed off to see the Catacombs. They were really cool! The first ones we visited were quite small, only 7 miles of tunnels and 100,000 graves. They are named after Saint Sebastion, but apparently the remains of Peter and Paul were there for awhile too. They were only excavated in the 30s, and they were really well preserved. The other ones we visited were 20km of tunnels, and a half million graves. They were excavated in the 1800s and were far more rebuilt than the first one. I was glad we had done both.

Now we're just on our way back to the hostel to grab our stuff, cause we're catching a train to Naples this afternoon! We're gonna eat pasta and seafood and go visit Pompeii and Herculaneum! I can't wait! Michelle says to add that she is looking forward to a "sweet sweet archaeological adventure."

Don't worry guys, I'm sure your lives are cool and interesting too.