blog 1 of 2 tonight

hello all! *before i begin, i just want to apologize for any confusion about me having another blog....i just typed it wrong in my last post and meant to say "check my other post" not my other blog... hope that clears things up :)*

so right now we are in rome. we took a 19 hour boat ride from barcelona to rome. it was a bit more than we expected to pay for it, but whatev! we got to take a cruise ship across the mediteranean sea, so it was worth it just for the experience..... not the most comfy 19 hour ride of my life, and its interesting to try to sleep in a skirt in a chair that reclines 3 inches while using a scarf as a blanket..... but the time did seem to pass quicker than that of a train ride so all was well. when we landed we weren't really sure what to do because we weren't in rome, we were in some "near by town" so we magically found a bus that said "free shuttle bus" so we took that to the train station and caught a train to rome, which was about an hour away... so at least we found our hostel and got all that funness squared away :) and we went out to eat and had some marvelous pasta and then we went to see the coloseum at night b/c we'd heard it is lite up real cool, which it was. but the highlight by far was stumbling upon a couple as they were getting engaged!!! too cute! we walked up right as he must have given her the box with the ring in it b/c she looked stunned and had tears in her eyes. i wanted to be a ghetto tourist and watch, but after i made eye contact with the guy i felt like a complete botard and left them to their own cuteness :)

so today we walked all over rome and it was great! we saw the coloseum, trevi fountain, spanish steps, pantheon, and a few other things that i don't remember the names of. i have been learning a lot of history of so many places that its all starting to blend together. so i feel like if i come away with 1 or 2 tidbits i'm doing good :)

so we had to basically sprint walk from the coloseum to our hostel because we were supposed to meet this man that sarah knows (not a shady man of course) in front of our hostel to go stay with him at his house. and it was 98 degrees and uphill a lot of the way, so i basically sweated thru my whole outfit. awesome :( anways, he is sarah's sister's husband's brother.... if you followed that. he is in the army and is stationed over here with his family. so it was so awesome of him to open up his home to us! he cooked us a great meal - pasta w/ gorgonzola and sundried tomatoes, grilled chicken (which was sooooo great since peanut butter has been our main source of protein...), mozzerella and tomatoe, grean olives (which are a new FAV of mine!!!) and some really good white wine! then he drove us to the beach to show us where its at (like a 5 min drive from his house) so that we would know how to take the bus to it tomorrow. we decided that tomorrow we're gonna chill, do laundry, go to the beach and layout, and RELAX!!! key word being RELAX! and then the next day we'll finish out our time in rome going through the vatican and all its glory.

right now sarah and i are staying up late to watch gymnastics in the olympics (its on at 1am here) b/c we are sleeping in tomorrow!!!! its incredible! it feels like home and is just so nice, relaxing, and comforting. oh yeah, and another great news - WE CAN UPLOAD PHOTOS!!!! so i'm gonna do that tomorrow, so i'll blog again once its all done and ready :)

alrighty, that is all i think i have to say for this blog........ i am gonna write another blog tonight for a couple of reasons. #1. i have all the time in the world to use free internet :) #2. sarah is watching an episode of 24 until the olympics come on so i figured why not #3. this blog is more cheerful, and the other topic is a bit more serious, so i thought i'd split em up. not to mention the fact that this one is already turning into a rambling novel.............