*You should have invested in Euros and British Pounds about a year ago. The exchange rate right now is pretty hideous. Take McDonalds as a standard for comparison. A value meal: €6,50 or about $10.00. A Diet Coke (or Coca Light) about €3,00 or about $5.00 .
*Italians drive like fucking psychos. Don’t believe me? Just ask the Italians. I know that a city over 2,000 years old has a built in excuse against modern day urban planning, but you’d have to really be strong with the force to be able to navigate a typical street. Never mind all the one-way streets and five point intersections, most side streets are no wider than your normal back alley, with the exception of multiple parked cars and people just lazily walking down the street. Lane markers? Suggestions. Traffic lights? Warnings. These people may drive scooters and matchbox Euro-cars, but they WILL RUN YOU OVER.
*If you think all Italians eat nothing but pizza and drink Cappuccino, then you are racists. Then again, all we had to eat was pizza, and all there was to drink was Cappuccino, but that is mere coincidence! They have other local flavours, like salami. Pasta. Ricotta. You know, nothing that you would expect from typical Americo-Italian cuisine.
*Try to ignore the scaffolding. Its everywhere. Dude, let’s see you try to keep your multi-millennium-year-old city clean!
*Let the pretty girl do the bargaining for you. I’m ugly. Not for a man, but for a woman. Italian dudes love chicks (since apparently sex in public isn’t looked down upon).
Apparently, if you’re female and you make eye contact with an Italian guy its consent for sex. However, this can come in handy when you need info from the Vatican guards as to when the Pope is going to make an appearance, or when you are trying to get into the Vatican and you want a discount, you can whore your sister out to convince the ticket guy that we’re both 18 and we can get in for €8,00 each (as opposed to €14,00). Although I think I got stiffed a few Euro on the change, I’ll take it as a kickback for the teller and move on with my life.
*When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Unfortunately for me, I didn’t bring a lot of vests, leather shoes, or face visor sunglasses. Unfortunately for my sister, she didn’t bring knee high boots, fur coats, or full long hair (I’ll post more about stereotypes later). We are typical outcasts.
Now, onto today’s events:
Here are some pictures of the Vatican:
We tried to get good pictures of the interior pictures, but the lighting sucks. That and you get wound back and forth to what you keep thinking is the Sistine Chapel. However, when you finally get to the Sistine Chapel, you are absolutely amazed…by the fact that you aren’t allowed to take photos. You can buy postcards in the gift shop! Leave it to the Catholics to capitalize on beauty.
After a quick snack, we tried to hop a bus over to the Coliseum and Forum. Finding the appropriate bus took some effort. Trying to stay alive while the bus driver jerked us around the vehicle with his sharp turns and sudden stops proved even more challenging. However, we did manage to live long enough to depart and snap a few photos of the Forum and Coliseum. Pretty impressive, if you’re into the History thing. Or that movie Gladiator.
5 comments:
Glad to hear all is well, I was beginning to wonder if your flight was re-routed to Guantanamo.
The exchange may be unfavorable, but remember, if you sell YOUR body for sex, you get paid twice as much.
Other than your language is horrid, and I assume that your threw your GUM wrapper away and not gun wrapper away -- this is so funny.
Glad the internet worked --- jolly good show! Love, Mum
Tzac says: In response to your comments on the Italians, and particularly their driving -- there is a reason that Columbus and friends left the Old World for the New several centuries ago -- it was bad then and has not improved, just gotten older.
Of course -- this from the group of folks who apparently carved their school symbol on the Colessium. Nice....
Love Mom and Tom! (Who says, "The Twelth Man is With Us Whereever we Go.)
I want more photos of the hot guy who was standing by the Death Star. He looks Italian, with that sexy wavy hair and all.
On second thought, maybe he should have gotten a haircut before leaving America. :)
Yeah I needed a GD haircut. Its driving me insane right now!!!!!
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