Day 8 – Thursday
Hey everyone,
We started out of Pisa at 10:15 AM, heading to Rome, a 345 Km journey. We got off the freeway around 150 Km from Rome. to a place called (I don’t remrmber, it was in Italian, something like Giannella). It was a typical European type beach with dirt for sand. We just looked and went back on the road.
We are here in Rome, we are at the Sheraton Roma hotel. It’s nice. We got here about 3:30PM and took the metro to The Colloseum, we took a tour, and at the end it started to rain (it was pouring cats & dogs), Hail, thunder etc. This just happened out of the blue.
It was me, Rozig, Anto, Garinn & Mom. I bought 3 umbrellas, but the streets were swimming pools. We waited for 20 minutes then took the plunge. I stepped in water ankle deep, in what looked like dirty water. Let’s just say I started thinking I was a Roman soldier, so I didn’t let it bother me.
We made it to the Metro station, thinking was the only bright bulbs in the bunch, but these Italians must have read the same book, because everybody and their uncle were there waiting to get in. I tried to buy tickets, my Euros were soaking wet, so the machine didn’t take it, Luckily I’m an Engineer, I had brought coins, just enough so I didn’t have to ask people for money for metro transfer. (Although I had the cup ready!)
We got the tickets, Rozig put her ticket into the station-entry-turnstile thingy and of course it jammed the machine. It was the only one working, but we had shown it to the security guy before putting it in, so he escorted us to get a new ticket. and we got through. Then of course we got to the metro, it was packed like an Indian bus going from Bombay to Calcuta. We have become Europeans though, we pushed, I brought my princess Garinn next to me and said, “Indzi perne hokis, oushatir, kerbannert pan meh gah?, yeteh chi gah, mee medahokvir.”
Anyway, we got to the stop by the hotel. By the hotel means 10 min walk, here it’s standard. We took showers, washed clothes, and ate something, the waiter liked me, so instead of 4 Pastas, 2 desserts and 1 pizza, he charged us for 3 Pastas, and a Pizza, and gave me the wink. I’m worried because he knows our room number now, and he’s not my type.
Anyway, we are done for the day and I am writing this so you know what went on. Signing off, I will try to talk to you again tomorrow.
-D