Day Four

We went to the Colosseum!!

I can't even begin to explain to you how amazing the Colosseum is. It is truly massive and so amazingly beautiful. It is so amazing to imagine what it would have looked like back when it was actually being used. The tour guide that took us through was great and told us the entire history of the Colosseum and helped us to imagine what it used to look like. Noel took several different group pictures of the entire group in the Colosseum, and even Fiona got her picture taken. The Colosseum is one of the things that I wanted to see most and I'm so glad that we got to spend so much time exploring and just taking it all in.

We also took a tour through the Roman Forum. This was also amazing and hard to imagine what it must have been like before it was buried and then excavated. I was amazed to hear that over a thousand years, the structures were buried in like ten feet of sand and they began to build on top of it before they realized that there was practically a whole city underneath. In fact almost all of modern Rome was built on top of the old buildings that were buried.

After the tour, we had free time for the rest of the afternoon. A few of us had heard of a "Pub Crawl" for St. Patrick's Day and decided to check it out. Starting at noon, a bunch of people were going from pub to pub each hour to do a free shot at each one. The whole thing was organized and you only had to pay 15 euros and you could get a t-shirt and follow the group to 12 different pubs that were marked on the map. We joined at the fifth pub and those who were drinking had their Green Frog Shot. It was a lot of fun because there were about eighty people in the Crawl and so we would walk down the street as a huge group all wearing green shirts and giant hats. A lot of people honked their horns at us and a few took our pictures as our procession moved down the street. Eventually, after the third pub, we all got hungry so we made our way back towards the hotel and found a nice little place to get pizza and gelato. A few of us decided to call it a night while the others went out to meet back up with the Crawlers at Pub #9.