-Dawn- Today, was dedicated to Vatican city. We woke up at 6:00am and took the matro to the Vatican. We got in line to the the Vatican Museum by about 7:15 and waited in line till the museum opened at 8:45. Once it opened we were at the head of the line and got into the museum in only 5 minutes. The museum is a lot like the louvre, you could spend 12 years in there and still not see everything! We headed towards the Sistine Chapel and on the way saw many...

-Dawn- Rome is really an awesome city, It is so ancient it's amazing. We took a hop on hop off bus tour today of the ancient ruins on the outskirts of the city. We went down and saw the St. Callista Catacombes, which are the oldest of the three main catacombes in the area we were at. It has a gallery of tombs which held popes from the third century as well the tomb of it's namesake St. Callista. We also saw the colleseaum and some of thew roman forum, a...

-Dawn- So, today we arrived in Rome around 6:00 pm. We went and visited some of the sights that night including the Trevi Fountain (seen here) which is the most beautiful fountain ever! It's like the entire front of the building has water cascading from it and the scuptures are wonderful. (I bought a painting of it I liked it so much!) anyway, we also saw bunches of other things: the spanish steps, the piazza Venezia (venice plaza), the piazza del Popolo...

-Dawn- So, today we went and toured the city or Rimini. The city had three sets of walking tours laid out with signs (in english, yay!) describing the various ruins, monuments, and buildings from three different eras: ancient, middle ages, and modern. We ended up walking all around the city and saw arches and remnants of city walls from the days of the roman empire castles built in the middle ages, an ancient bridge still in use today, several ruins, and e...

-Elizabeth- Our 2 days/3nights in Rimini Italy are so far very relaxing. We arrived Friday evening and took the bus to our hotel, Sunflower Beach Backpacker hostel. It had bright yellows on the walls and a corner of the room with large pillows to sit on the floor, a bar and small tables and chairs for breakfast. A local bar gave out free samples that night to advertise. They gave us a sample of 3 different mixed drinks. After sampling the drinks we wat...