Rome: Day 7

Today I woke up nice and hung over from the great night before. We had an eight hour Rome walking tour planned for today. we stayed at an autograph collection hotel called The CARDO. It was very nice. They had a great breakfast spread this morning and I particularly enjoyed getting a whole tea pot for myself to have tea. if I’m being completely honest, my fit was not that great today and I wasn’t really feeling Rome at all. Rome is honestly my least favorite city in Europe so far, so I wasn’t exactly excited to go on an eight hour tour of things I’ve already seen before. We left the hotel, and began our tour. I could write a whole bunch about what we saw and whatever, but realistically, we saw the outside of a whole bunch of stuff just like the last time I was here. We saw the Trevi Fountain, The Colosseum, the Spanish steps, and the Pantheon- all the main tourist spots.I was trying to pay attention to our tour guide with our little tour sound units, but I had a hard time understanding all the things that he was saying because of his accent. The best part of today was the food. I had a good lunch at this little restaurant close to the Trevi fountain. I had rigatoni with spicy marinara sauce. Then I picked up a few little souvenirs, including one for Nicks Dad. After lunch we continued our tour and everyone started to get a little restless and annoyed because they were irritated that they hadn’t been able to go into things and that we probably weren’t gonna get to see The Vatican City today. Meanwhile, I’m still hung over and so I’m highly irritable, but eventually after food it got a lot better. At 3:30 we were loose in the square where the stolen Egyptian obelisk is, and Bex and I got tourist trapped into a gelato place because the guy was like offering samples, and so of course we took advantage of that. K and they had a Viagra flavor, which which we thought was really funny. I ended up getting an Oreo flavored gelato, and it was actually not that great. We ended up getting back on the bus at like five pm or 530 pm. I really wanted to swim. Turns out this hotel is pool closed at six pm. We got to the hotel at 5:50. So I got irritated and ended up going with Sam to the gym. The gym was very nice and it was very quiet. At one point the only people down there were people who are a part of our tour group. I recorded all my sidelines that are due tomorrow since we’re going to be traveling and I won’t be able to record them, and I ran a mile at the beginning of my workout and at the end of my workout and both were sub 10 minutes. I also beat my personal record for a mile time, which was 8:46. After that we went to dinner at the restaurant in the hotel, and I had a pizza that had fennel and this kind of Italian sausage that’s kind of like chorizo. It was another high point of the day. I came back up to the room to repack my suitcase since we’re flying again tomorrow and our bags have to be under 50 pounds. I was really scared that since I bought more stuff that my bag was gonna be over 50 pounds and when we flew from Spain to here the first time It was over 50 pounds, but this time my bag weighed 48.9 pounds. The whole ghost crew hung out in the room with me while I was packing my bag. Overall, Rome still isn’t my favorite city. I can honestly say that unless there’s a really really good reason for me to come back, this will probably be my last time in Rome.Read more