We woke up early the next morning and spent the last few days in Perugia before heading to Rome to take him to the airport. I basically showed him around the city, took him to all the major sites and all the major sandwhich shops that I can’t live without. Later that night we went to a few bars but nothing was really that crazy like usual because everyone was still on Spring break, so we played jenga in the middle of the bar and typical me knocked over the whole thing and they went into his beer! Hahaha, after that we went to a discotecka and danced all night and then went home to sleep. Saturday we woke up and went to the market and shopped and then I took him to a really gorgeous church that I had seen before, it was closed and it was not going to open until 15.00 (3 o’clock). Well it was 12:50 so I thought we could wait 10 minutes because for some odd reason I didn’t think and thought 15.00 was 1’oclock… so we are waiting and waiting and waiting and it never opens. A tourist comes and tells us it doesn’t open until 3. haha so we didn’t get to see it because we wanted to walk around the center and shop some more and have a nice dinner at a restaurant that overlooks the mountains and valleys. So we shop and walk around and do some more sightseeing and we decide to head over to the restaurant because they have a bar with lounge chairs outside overlooking the view, so we had a few beers and waited until the restaurant opened at 7:30. We made a pact that we would do the real Italian dinner and eat all the courses. The appetizer, the first course, second course and then desert… WELL, there was much confusion and to this day I still don’t really know what happened, but about 3 hours later we finally received all of our meals. By the time I was finished the appetizer I was stuffed! I am never doing the Italian meal ever again. Too much and too expensive! After dinner at about 11:30 pm, we head home and start packing things up so that we can leave for rome early in the morning and see the pope at 12 and then have the rest of the day in rome and Monday morning take him to the airport. WELL, we didn’t go to bed until about 3 am because of all the souvenirs I needed to send home with him and all the stuff he had to repack into his tiny little suitcase. Our train was leaving at 7:23 sharp. So we wake up about 15 minutes late but its okay things would have still worked out IF, the lady at the bed and breakfast didn’t tell us cash only and one of us had to run all the way up the mountain about 10 minutes away to the atm to get cash…. So, we are still somewhat on time we just need to run everywhere…BUT, we get all the way to the minimetro which is like a mineral that takes you through out the city and its across town from where we are… ITS CLOSED!!! Its about 7: 05 and it takes at least 15 minutes to get to the train station, so we have to walk allllll the way back to where we were to get a bus… the bust comes and I tell him hurry up we have to get on a train and he asks what time the train is I say 7:23.. he tells me its 7:23 now and we will miss it. The next train didn’t come until 11:45, we missed the pope.

We end up in rome and after a fiasco with the bus schedule we finally get to our hotel, put our stuff down and start heading to all the major sights. We went to the coliseum but it was closed so we didn’t get to go in but it was so cool! I have learned about that all my life and I was finally there. It was so neat, all the original carvings were all over it and funny people dressed up as gladiators where there and you can take pictures with them but of course after u take a picture with them they beg you for money, so me and tino had a photo shoot with one and he asks us for 10 euro! So we walk away and he follows us we just start running and finally we got away. Haha, then we got on the metro and went to the Vatican. GOREOUS! We got to see mass and they had about 50 confessionals going on in all different languages and they had popes buried under the altars and their names carved into the walls and all sorts of neat historical and religious things. It was beautiful, but I was disappointed I was expecting it to be the most beautiful church I have ever seen but Prague’s cathedral and the St. Marks Cathedral in Venice were both way prettier. After the Vatican and Mass we went back to our area where the hotel was because the Trevi fountain was right next to our hotel, So we hung out at the fountain after dinner and ate gelato and tons of Muslims wouldn’t stop bothering us, they wanted to take a picture of us and make us pay for it and they would give me roses and then ask tino to buy the rose and it ruined the entire experience. So finally after being pestered for an hour we flipped out on one and he must have told the others so no one bothered us after that. Haha. After relaxing and enjoying the last bit of italy we went back to the hotel and fell asleep. Monday morning came and we got on the train to the airport and we got him checked in and said our sad goodbyes :[  I made my way back to Perugia and he made his way back to America. I had the most amazing spring break ever and I wouldn’t have wanted to spend it any other way!