Take it to the Street

Yesterday wasn't very interesting. We went to church in Florence which was forever long because they had a guy translate at the pulpit. Very long. After that we went to some town on a hill and saw a striped church which was neat.
We drove into Rome and it is cool. We are staying in a convent and the sisters are so kind and so amazing. Our rooms are so comfortable and the sister try to teach me Italian! Which I love. We went around our neighborhood and saw so many cool street performers. There was the spray painters and acrobats and magicians and bubbles! I love bubbles. There were si many stands and cute things. We went and got gelato and I had some street pizza with arugala, mozzarella, and tomatoes. So good and so cheap. It was so fun.
Today we took a walking tour of Rome. It was windy. I have a passionate hate against wind. Especially cold wind. So I don't really remember much about today because I kind of zone out to avoid thinking about the wind. I know we saw the coliseum and the pantheon. We also saw Michelangelo's Moses. I really liked that. We saw the Trevy Fountain. I don't know how to spell it. I threw a coin in and made a wish. We ate a delicious dinner. We had real pizza cooked forno style. It's thin like a cracker and amazing. We got sausage, extra cheese, and mushroom. Mmmm. We saw carvaggio's the Ecstasy of St. Teresa. She's not my favorite saint but the sculpture is pretty. We also saw Carvaggio's painting of the ordination of Matthew. That is a seriously pretty painting. I can't think of what else we saw... Were going out again tonight to see the Coliseum lit up. That'll be fun.

Last Day in the City of Music

Today was our totally free day. We weren't sure what we were going to do when we came home last night. Luckily we made a great plan. I'm into maps so I drew all over mine and wrote our plan down. We woke up and left by 9:30 this morning. We took a streetcar all the way to the Central Cemetary to visit the graves of the diseased composers. Mozart has a monument there as well, even though he technically isn't buried there. It was very cool. We also walked over to the Jewish section of the cemetery. That made me kind of sad. They have no posterity to take care of their plots, so they are thickly overgrown or are broken. Many were even pushe over or purposefully broken after one of Hitler's speaches. It was rather sad and so quiet.
After that we went to Karlscirche or whatever. Charles' Church. We climbed up all this scaffolding to the top of the dome. It was kind of scary. It was so rickety and high! But the dome was amazing to see up close. It's a baroque style church so the art is beautiful and very decorative.
We went to a palace after that. We couldn't go in because it was so expensive.
Then we went all the way back to the ice cream place from the first night. It's so good and creamy and has delicious flavors. M. and I got some while everyone else went home. I got hazelnut, vanilla, and chocolate. The place is called Tichy but is pronounced teeky.
After that we went to an opera. They have standing tickets for only €4. So we though it would he cool. The opera was Don Giovani by Mozaert. I loved it but my feet were killing me so I left at intermission. I have terrible feet. No matter what shoes o wear I'm in pain.
Anyway. Tomorrow we drive out to Velden then on to Florence. I'm so excited for Italy!