FINALLY!

Well the title of this pretty much sums it up. We finally made it to Rome after the train that we were supposed to catch being canceled because of snow in Venice (Kelly really wanted to see snow). We finally found out how to use the pay phones here in Italy (there were never any directions). Finally found the driver and got to the hotel (Roman drivers suck btw). Finally got on the tour bus after the company forgot to pick us up and then the taxi driver dropped us off at the wrong spot and spent an antagonizing 15 min running around with Kelly trying to find the bus. But all of this pales in comparison to the fact that WE HAVE FREE INTERNET AND TV CHANNELS IN ENGLISH!!!! (the only problem with the internet though is that the converter that we have doesn't work so well so it takes a while to charge the laptop).

Now that I got that out of my system I can continue with our travels. Obviously you haven't heard from us for a while and that's because of the internet in the previous hotels. They charged us for it and while in Florence we weren't at the hotel enough for it to be useful. So to recap Florence. Lot's of art and statues and cold. The wind was biting and it was just above freezing even during the day. I'm not really big into art so it was nice to see the paintings and statues from the ancient greats like Michealangelo and Leonardo but it wasn't my cup of tea. Though the buildings like Santa Croce and the Duomo (in Florence at least) were amazing. The Duomo is the 4th largest church in the world and it was a little depressing that we couldn't spend more time there to go inside and see it. The food though was pretty good. We had a chardonnay in this little restaurant we found called Rittino (i think) that was excellent. I really must find that when I get home. We had to wake up really early today to get to the museum to see the real David but I don't think it was really worth waking up that early to see it. Though an interesting side note we did see the Italian President while we were going to the Uiffizi. Once we found the tour bus for Rome we rode and walked along to see the Coliseum and the Forums. Kelly's camera ran out of batteries which made us both upset because we couldn't take anymore pictures for the day. Because the train was late I didn't get a chance to eat lunch :( so I was working on just breakfast but I made up for it with dinner. Thankfully the hotel that we are staying at has a cafe and we get a 15% discount. Tomorrow we have the Vatican tour in the morning which should be a lot of fun.