Italia

October 20, 2009 · Filed under Uncategorized

The first place we stopped in Italy was Venice. You know the city with water streets? At least when we were there I didn’t have to be worried about getting hit by a car. It’s basically a walking city, oh and boats. 🙂 They even have water taxis if your to lazy to walk to your destination. Other than of water streets  to our surprise pretty much every store had a collection of masks. So we found out why they were so many , it was because back in the 17^th century everyone in the city were suppose to wear masks in public. So Drew and I decided that we wanted to buy one, you know for Halloween sake. Drew bought a V for Vendetta mask ( looks like V’s mask from the movie) and I bought this pink feathery, fancy traditional one. 😀 After Venice we decided to take a day trip to Pisa. The first thing we did when we arrived in Pisa, was visiting the famous leaning tower of Pisa and took the famous picture of “trying to hold it up” or pretending to lean on it as if your making it lean. So we have over a billion pictures of us doing that. After the tower we got tickets to go into this baptizing church. It was nice but weird that they had a church just for baptizing! Suddenly, when we were upstairs, people started to sing and we had no idea what it was. So dad thought it was just music playing so he mimicked them. And it turned out that it was a choir singing!!! So Dad kinda got in trouble, the guards shushed him. And I was trying so hard to laugh!!!! After that experience we were going to our hotel in Florence. When we got in Florence we were so hungry so we went into the streets to search for a restaurant. And like they say, Italians have the best food. Every meal in Italy was so so so good. :] The next morning we were off to Naples to see the deserted city of Pompeii. The story of Pompeii is so interesting and could be researched for months!! The only thing about the set up, it wasn’t a set up for people that don’t know anything about that lost city. Their were no signs that indicated what this room was or how old it is or nothing!!! But hopefully in the next couple of years the Italians will understand that they really need to post up signs. It was really sketchy when we saw the molds of the people because you could actually see what the kids/babies and the adults looked like. It definitely gave you a knot in your stomach. So all and all it was very interesting. After Pompeii we actually went to visit Naples this time round. Well  actually we visited this little fishing village called Mergellina.And loads of people were coming off there boats with buckets of fish/squids and ext.  And old mans were fishing of the shore with their banana hammock speedos on. 😐 And personally I thought Naples was pretty scary and especially when I saw what  our hotel looked like. We definitely locked the door and had a little alarm set if the door was ever opened. The next day we were finally going to Rome!!!! Yayy! I really liked Rome. The first event that we did when we got there was visiting the Colosseum. That was also very interesting. Like, Once the games were cancelled people of the city Rome started using pieces of the Colosseum for there houses/gardens and stuff. After the 2 hours tour of the Colosseum we started looking at all the othe old monuments around the Collosseum. Wow I’m saying Colloseum a lot. Colloseum Colloseum Colloseum Coloseum!!!!!!! 🙂  Anyways. We had our first attempt to a pickpocketer, which was a fail. I was the first one to realize Because once we stopped to look at something he just started kicking his feet in place. So I kinda gave mom the look. And then she gave Dad he look and we all knew except Drew…..So what we did we tested him to see if he was really following then Dad told us to stop. And Drew asked “ Why?!” and Dad said “ Because this guy right here is following us!!!!” And he said it really loud so the man could hear. And the he realized he was caught and went off.  But that whole time my stomach was twisting.  Since we arrived in Rome pretty late all we really had time for that night was the Colloseum. The next day in Rome,  we went to the Vathican. You know where the Pope lives? Yeah, well we were lucky enough that when we arrived there, a service was going on!!! And we heard the Pope gave us a speech and he blessed every single one of us!!! So I thought that was pretty exciting.But it was really hot out so it was kinda  drag standing in line to get in. So mom volunteered to stand in line because Drew and I had to wait for Dad. Why did we have to wait? Well he didn’t think of covering his shoulders. So he was wearing a muscle shirt and the gurads said he couldn’t get in so we were first in line and by the time he came back we were almost last. 😦 But things like that happens. After the Vathican we went to the famous fountain called The fountain of Trevi. So the traditon is that you have to throw 2 coins inside the fountain. The first one grants you a wish and the second means that you WILL back to Rome. So I guess I’ll be back in Rome! Well those are the main things we saw and we saw a lot of little old buidings and stuff. 🙂 Okay, so that’s all for Italy. See you in the French Riviera!