Wooooo

So...Inga is here now and I'm already enjoying traveling with her. It is nice to now be able to share my travels with someone else. We have gotten totally lost like twice in the past two days so I hope she isn't holding that against me.

Before she got here however, I went to the Vatican Museums which I have decided I full on hate. Yes, they have a bunch of amazing works, but they are too big, have too many pieces, and admit too many people. They really ought to only allow a select number of people into the museums every day. Anyways, despite those issues, I enjoyed it. Esp since I got my ticket half price since I was wearing an AS Roma football jersey. The workers there all love me. I even wasn't charged cover charge at the restaurant because of my shirt. Gotta love Romans.

The first day Inga was here we just walked around our old neighborhood, went to the Victorio Emanuel monument in the hopes that there would be good views, went to a museum of WWII resistence (pretty cool and free!), and went to the Jewish Ghetto. Oh, and I found €50 on the ground so that was cool. We finally went to a restaurant in the ghetto that we had wanted to go to since we lived here. And man, it was good.

The next day we went to Lago Bracciano (a lake north of Rome). We swam and just had a lazy day. It was so nice to escape the heat of the city. And just so beautiful. Right now along the Tiber there is a arts/food festival going on so that night we ate there and bought some earings. It is all just so cool how much the city comes alive in the summer. I hate all the tourists (even though I know that I am one of them), but man, Trestevere is awesome right now.

Yesterday we got totally lost but eventually made it to the Appian Way, rented bikes and biked the ancient road---another thing we had wanted to do the last time we were here. It was absolutely beautiful and I would love to do it again since we weren't even able to bike the whole thing (we had to return the bikes by 5). Anywho, today we are taking it easy--shopping a bit, going to a couple of churches, and hopefully making it back to a restaurant we really enjoyed when we lived here---Cacio e Pepe.

Tomorrow we wake up early and make our way to Matera. If I ever am able to find fast internet, I'll upload my pictures. Seriously, the lack of good internet has been pissing me off. That is all.