wear comfortable walking shoes!
Long travels and massive time changes didn't stop us from getting an early start. You may think we are tourists, but we travel like locals. It was off to the metro! We took a panoramic tour around the city, then got off to do a little walking through Rome ourselves. We saw the Pantheon, ate more pizza (this time with cheese!), thirty churches, walked through a New Year's Eve piazza parade, saw some ruins invaded by stray cats and needless to say walked the city of Rome. We learned that pedestrians do not have the right of way in Rome. It's a continuous game of Frogger, we haven't lost yet!
We made it back to the hotel and freshened up to meet the group for dinner. We met great people and then headed to downtown for a New Year's Eve pub crawl. There is nothing like champagne toasts , vodka lemonade, rum and coke outside the majestic lights of the Vatican. Oh don't worry the night's not nearly over. We headed through Rome to a pub amidst broken glass and fireworks (local Italian stlye) going off like bombs around us. We had some great views, as we walked around many exploding fireworks. In the pub vodka shots awaited us and dancing started shortly after. We could show them all our signature moves and even came up with a couple new ones we can't wait to share with you. It's better than Magnum....we call it The Venice! We counted down to 2007 and toasted with champagne in plastic cups...so classy! It is customary in Italy to throw something old out the window, so the streets weren't just filled with people. We made it to the discoteca where another shot awaited and we danced to some great music like Elvis and Grease Lightning. We were sychronized in everything!
We had to catch the metro back to the hotel. We just didn't realize it was 2 miles away and we only had 15 min before it closed. We were running and our feet have been paying for it ever since!
Rome New Year's CRAZY!!!! capiche
Augure!
Allison and Amanda
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I havn't stopped laughing since I read about your trips to Italy. Sounds like an adventure! How did the men's restroom smell? And I can't believe there are people out there who are stupid enough to think they can smoke in the airplane bathrooms and not get caught! I miss you ladies!
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