Italy: Day One

We were on the overnight train until about 830 in the morning. We got breakfast and it was pretty gross but I drank the coffee and eat the hard roll because I was so hungry at this point. Once we got into Rome we met our tour guide, Roberta. She was little and kind of crooked but very cute! We went straight to the Baths of Caracalla which were amazing. The Romans used aqueducts for their water supply to drink from but they also used them for the baths. The Baths of Caracalla had exercise rooms, spa rooms, and libraries. There were three different kinds of baths: hot, warm, and cold. After the Baths we went to the Colosseum or Coliseum. Apparently in the different languages there are different spellings. Right in front of the Colosseum there was the Arch of Constantine from when He declared Rome a Christian Empire. The Colosseum was my favorite because in my four years of Latin in high school we learned so much about all the old Roman buildings. Next we went to the Roman Forum, which I have seen a movie about in Latin class; it was very torn down but still impressive. We saw the Arch of Titus, Temple of Vista, Temple of Caster and Pollex. All the ruins in the Forum were very indistinguishable but it was neat to just know what was there and how things were set. After the long tour we were taken to the hotel outside the city a little bit and we had some time to ourselves. We meet up in the lobby later and all went to dinner where our travel agent had set up. His name is Daniel and he helps us with planning our weekend trips and he also changed my ticket so I may go to Greece in December. He had set up the trip to where the money my parents, (Thanks Daddy and Mommy) had paid for program fees took us out four times over the ten day Italy trip. We had two meals in Rome, one in Florence and one in Sienna.