Rome 1

Haven't updated this is in a while, but the weekend before this was a softball tournament in Galway, so there was not much to explain. It was my first hotel experience outside of the country but other than that it was just a fun time.
We left Limerick on Friday the 12th, stayed the night in a hostel, and had an interesting night in the Dublin pubs. We had to get up semi-early for a flight on a Saturday to Rome. When we landed in Rome we went out to the bars, not pubs here, sat at a fountain and drank in the streets, it was a new experience to say the least. The cops walked by us, and let us go, until they started to sweep the streets at about 3 AM.
The next day we went to the Colosseum, that was a breathtaking experience, we got to walk around it and just take it all in. After that we just walked around and got to see a lot, but it gets really dark really early here, at around 5pm. The weather was the best of what we have had in the entire time in Europe, it was about 70 and bright sun the entire time we were here. We had the most amazing food at every meal, minus the hot dogs, those were good, but they were hot dogs, just on Italian bread. The gelato here is amazing, it is ice cream, but a million times better, in the most exotic flavors available, including Viagra flavor. The wine is as cheap as they say it is, with an average bottle costing E6, or about $8.
We got up early on the next day, to get breakfast, which consists of a roll, and half of a glass of orange juice. When we were done this snack, we headed off to the Roman Forum, and Palantine Hill, which is the heart of Ancient Rome, it is an excavated city, with some impressive structures, there was a stadium, churches, and Caesar Augustus' house. This was about lunch, so we headed back to the hostel, then to attempt to ride scooters around the city, but got jerked around for two hours about that because we are American, and do not have a motorcycle license. So we decided to take a city tour on an open-air double decker bus. We got to drive past the Vatican, and see most of the huge monuments in the city. After the bus, we head back to the hostel.
When we wake up we go to the train station to catch a train to Florence, but it did not work out because one guy wanted E115, or $135, or the city train was E88/$110 which would have taken 4 hours each way, and ruin the day for a lot of money, so we chose to see more of the city. We literally walked everywhere, and had I not forgotten the camera, you would see what I saw, but once my room mate uploads the pictures, they will be on Facebook.
Tomorrow is the Vatican, and then Dublin for two nights, then off to the Dam