First day in Italy! :D

Tuesday, July 24th:

I haven't slept much since Sunday. Monday, we left at 7:30 for Chicago. Arriving at O'Hare around noon, we found out that we couldn't check in until 3:30. Then our flight would finally leave at 7:15. Those seven hours were agonizing.

On the 8-9 hour flight to Zurich, I watched the Hunger Games (which I have not seen before! Loved it!) and attempted to sleep. It wasn't very successful.

We arrived n Zurich at 11:15 AM, their time. We had a one-hour connecting flight to Rome.

I was a little tired when we finally got to Italy, but I had no tme for rest, for we were jumping right into sight-seeing. First we took a walking tour, around the Trevi Fountain, en route to the PANTHEON. I loved the Pantheon, it was amazing. I studied a lot about it in AP Art History last year.

Welcome to Roma :)

Streets of Rome! There was a lot of cool graffiti :)

 

You quickly learned that "saldi" means "Sale" :)

 

Streets of Rome

 

McDonald's sign.

 

The Trevi Fountain! So many tourists, it was unbelieveable.

 

Trevi!!!

 

Walking the streets of Rome :D

 

While we were chilling outside of the Pantheon, we got the famous gelato. I had nutella and raspberry flavors. It was reaaaaally good!

 

The occulus of the Pantheon!!!

 

Aww yeah, definitely not photoshopped

PANTHEON

Errbody's congregatin' 

Then we went to Bennini's 4 river fountain statue (I'm sure there's a more official name). There were a lot of vendors and artists set up around all these tourist spots. Most of them were really good.

Eeeee 

There were tons of artists all around the tourist spots in Italy :) 

My first gelato: Nutella and Raspberry! It was amazing.

Then we finally went for our first Italian dinner. There was salad, and a main course of The Best Lasagna I've Ever Tasted. Then watermelon for dessert. :3 By the time we finished eating, I was almost falling asleep at our table.

Where we ate for dinner :)

 

Real Italian lasagna...soooo good

 

View of our dining area

 

Pretty sunset :) I was sooo beyond jetlagged at this point -.-

We took the bus back to the hotel and checked in. It's a four-person bedroom, with a decent shower. Now that I've taken a cold shower, I am ready to SLEEP. In a real BED.