Go Italia!

alright....so i suck at this blog thing. too much going on for me to actually stop and post about it.

NAPLES
well....naples was not the cleanest city ive ever been in. but we stayed outside the city....closer to pompeii. speaking of....pompeii was really cool. the weather was scortching but none of us realized that pompeii is an entire city! we thought that only part of the ruins were preserved but it is huge! we saw the bakery, the brothel, the gardens, the villa de misteri and so much more even though we only did the 2 hour tour and there was definately a 6 hour tour! anyway, that was the only reason we went to naples so that was pretty much all we saw except for the train station.

ROMA
un-freakin-believable! the colloseum was amazing! so much history and i am so glad we got the tour because it wasnt just a building...we learned about all the little details and saw a picture of what it was like when it was built...wow. then we saw the roman forum...pretty neat and the spanish steps(the site of our pub crawl...featuring the coolest t-shirts ever!) and the parthenon and trevi fountain and probably more that i am missing.

the vatican city we decided counts as another country on our list....cause it is! and how cool was it! the basillica was gorgeous and the sistine chapel was cool...but to tell you the truth both carolyn and i favoured the hall of maps to the chapel! lol!

CODROIPO
this is where we stayed with lauren's family. they were awesoe! took me to the doctor and bought me medicine cause i had a cold for 10 days....its almost gone now! they took us to the mountains (saw the freakin ALPS! and the dolomites). took us for lunch and to an outdoor concert. cooked us wonderful homemade italian dishes and took super care of all of us sickies(at this point...yes...we were all sick!).

VENICE
saw st. mark's square and the basillica. went down the canal grande in a ferry boat along with a rick steves self-guided tour. other than that...not much to see in venice. but it was a beautiful city. this was also our last stop in italy...so sad. last new country to see. next is london again.