Isn't it Rome-Anttics

Well I hopped on a flight to Rome on Sunday morning. And by hopped on I mean that I had to get up at 4am, walk to the bus stop and wait there for an airport bus then get on my flight at 6:30. Waiting at the bus stop meant standing in a down pour of rain. Thank you Scotland, thanks big guy. Anywyas I got to Rome at 10 and then had to hop a bus to get to the city and my hostel.

First impressions of Rome- looked a lot like Mexico. I was astonished- palm trees, huge dirt patches, graffiti EVERYWHERE, and some speratic garbage piles. I was actually thinking to myself is Rome actually like the Sixth sense of cities: everyone has heard its amazing and then you actually get there and everyone has kept the big finale a secret that its actually a dump. Now before you go telling everyone that I said Rome was a dump you have to read further.

I had to get another bus to my hostel. I wrote the dirrections wrong of course and did a full lap on this bad boy. I lookeed cool doing it too with my huge back pack and hoodie I was sporting in 30 degree weather. so I ended up finding myt hostel and setting up shop by noon. Really cute hostel, small but everyone is really nice.

I decided since I got my ass out of bed so early I mine as well take advantage of a full first day in Rome. So far still thinking that Rome is still a pile that everyone has jsut decided to keep quiet about, but I go to the train station where there are a bunch of hop on bus tours and I decide to hop on indeed. There are approximatly 1 billion different companies, but they all go to the same place. So I found a cheapish one and got on. I soon realized after paying that I had infact chosen a Christian tour of the city- why would I do that. No panic thoguh when you think about Rome's highlights are all Christian and so all the tour's are like Christian ones; no missing out there.

A few minutes into the tour we get out of skeez land Rome and things start looking up. Less graffiti, no garbage, and the buildings are staring to look like what I had imagined. I went around for a bit and sight-saw: vatican city, the coleseum, the roman forum, the Teravi fountain, Circus maximo, so many things, a lot of which were created in B.C. time- my mind exploded.