Roma!

Well, people...I'm on ROME!!! Transit was smooth, but its getting tiring lugging that luggage around. Packed for a month, and then weighed down with souvenirs and presents...I must really love you guys back home. :) I'm starting to get a few blisters on my hands. :/ Luckily I'm basically done hauling my bags around metro and train stations!

My place in Rome is a stone's throw from the entrance to Vatican City. What!! And it's spacious, too. It's an actual B&B, but I'm the only one here until Friday afternoon. And they have breakfast food for us - among it is a jar of Nutella. Bring on the delicious.

Anyway, I was pretty tired and needed to orient myself a bit, so I studied my map and had a small siesta before exploring. :) I went back to the train station to pick up my Roma Pass, then went to the main opera house, where a ballet is playing right now - Romeo and Juliet!!! Except I got there just after the box office closed. Apparently there is an under-25 discount (25%) and a day-of discount (25%)...so I'm definitely hitting that up soon!! Might even spring for a box. I'm feeling worldly enough to do something like that now. We'll see.

I grabbed a solid pasta dish somewhere on Via Corpio, enjoyed a nice tiramisu, then popped into a few shops on my way to the Colosseum. No big deal. Speaking of.....

Back to my place to plan more and prepare for my day trip tomorrow - I'm off to Napoli and Pompeii! Short post due to my nap and I uneventful travels this morning, but I feel like I usually make up for that. :)