Pizza, Colloseum, etc

I've been too busy writing people postcards to write in my actual journal, so here are some photos and stuff instead!

The past few days have been busy but pretty awesome. For the presentations, we went to the Colosseum, Ara Pacis, and the Baths of Caracalla.

Last night we had pizza down by Piazza Navona. I can't remember what it was called but it was definitely the best pizza I've had so far in Rome! We had to wait FOREVER but it was definitely worth it.

Mmmmm!

Went to the Baths of Caracalla yesterday. Here is one section of the ruins of what must have been an amazing bath system. It would have been faced in marble, gold, mosaics, etc


Here we are at the Colusseum! (as gladiators)


It was amazing.. again, hard to imagine what it actually would have looked like back then.

The other night a few of us decided to go check out the Fountain of Trevi at night to see if it was as spectacular as we had heard. It was kind of a long walk and we got lost, but then a super friendly guy at a gelato place gave us samples of gelato and pointed us in the right direction so we found it eventually. And it WAS spectacular! But also very crowded.



While on the way to the Fountain of Trevi, we passed this little old shop called Alina Accessories. It had a bunch of huge fake diamonds in the window. Classy!

This is where Giordano Bruno was burnt to death by the Inquisition way back in 1600. There is a big statue in the Campo dedicated to him and it's kind of a symbol of free speech.. also, a good place to hang out and eat pastries from the Forno!

As always, there is still a ton of reading to do. It's not as unmanageable as it seemed to be before the class started, though; there is still time to explore and have fun :-)

I FINALLY was able to find some stamps today, so if I'm sending you a postcard, you might actually get it before I come home!!