Italy Trip: Rome

So the trip started off in the airport where I met up with everyone and the first thing that was handed to me was a book. Angela hands it to me and says that Dr. Iannarelli, a professor at Bernelli University expects us to have it read by the time we get to Garda. So right then and there I'm thinking we are going to be doing a lot more work then I was hoping this trip. However, we hardly did much until we got to Garda. So on the plane I tried to read some of the book, but found it to be more helpful at putting me to sleep then informative. After we landed in Rome we collected our bags and met up with our tour guide Isabella and she took us to a bus to transport us to our hotel. Isabella told us we wouldn't see her after this commute until we were to go to the hospital in Rome our last day there. Once we got to our hotel and got settled in and went out and had lunch on our own we started touring Rome with Dr. Gianetti.

Our first stop was St. Peter's Square, since we were only a few blocks from its location. We looked around the square and took our first group photo of the trip and then headed toward Castel Sant' Angelo where we went inside to see the view from the top. However, we encoutered a small problem when the man working the ticket booth did not like how we didn't have exact change and yelled at us and the rest of the line to have correct change or he wouldn't give us a ticket. After we all got through that we toured some of the museums inside and climbed to the top to get a view of Rome. After the castle we walked across the Tiber river and to Piazza Navona to see the life there and the Four Rivers Fountain, Fountain of Neptune, and Fountain of the Moor. We also went inside the church in the Piazza called Sant' Agnese in Agone. While in the area we came across the Pittsburgh bar, well that's what we called it, La Boticella and talked to the bar owner for a couple minutes and told him we would be back that night.

After our quick tour of some of the sites we had dinner in the city which was amazing. We had four courses and I cleaned all of my plates except one, but that was the last time I didn't finish every plate. From dinner we went back to St. Peter's Square and Piazza Navona at night to get a different perspective. After this we broke off from the adults and went back to the Pittsburgh bar. We talked to the bar owner and stayed for awhile before heading back to the hotel. Below are some pictures from our first day.


St. Peter's Square

the group in St. Peter's Square

Castel Sant' Angelo


Four Rivers Fountain


Piazza Navona and the painters


Fountain of Neptune


Four Rivers Fountain at night