Weekend in Roma

Armin came to visit Rome this weekend. I had a good college night out, Friday. Went back to a bar i'd been to once before - On the Rocks. The bartenders there are cool. Randomly ran into a couple people from my Italian class, one of whom speaks German. Betsy also speaks danish. The coolest bartender there also happens to be from Denmark. So while the three of us are having a conversation in German, she's ordering drinks/talking to the bartender in danish as well. Quite the international experience.

Sometime after 02:00 we headed out. By 2:30, we wound up at a bar that televises US Sports. Just in time to catch the top of the 9th inning of a great Indians-Yankees game. The bugs were already swarming. But i guess i'd just missed seeing the Indians tie the game at 1-1 in the bottom half of the last inning. The game went 11 innings. Cleveland loaded the bases with two outs in the bottom of the 11th. Hafner worked the count to 3-2. And Lisa comes over to let me know we're leaving. Granted it was 4am by this point, but the game, all 11 innings worth, could be decided on the very next pitch. ..i'm staying to watch this pitch.

Hafner knocked the next pitch into right field. Indians win 2-1. The bar went nuts. The night ended well :-) . Sorry Yankee fans. .....well, not really. Maybe next time you should spend the tiniest fraction of your $200 million on some insect repellent.

I woke up at 9am the next morning to see Rome. My alarm was set for 9:30... so back to sleep i went. I was awake 8 minutes later. ...apparently i only needed 4 hours of sleep...?? I had a decent Kater from the €10.50 i spent the night before. I definitely got my money's worth.

Saturday was my first time inside the Coloseum. We checked out the Palatine Hill first. The ticket for the Palatine covers the Coloseum as well, but since the Palatine is a lot less popular in comparison, we had to wait a minute, as opposed to the 40 minutes the line at the Coloseum ticket window would have taken.

I didn't actually see the Pantheon on Saturday. Rob and i checked that out mid-week a couple weeks ago, since neither of us have class until late-afternoon Mon/Wed. But i thought since i was showing the Coloseum, i could throw up a picture of the Pantheon as well...