Summary of Rome, now Nice

Rome was pretty cool. It was a lot like Paris in that it had a lot of famous places to see that I had only heard about and seen pictures of. Those places (Collosium, Vatican, Sistene Chapel, etc.), however, were not the highlights of Rome. One of the highlights was definitely watching the USA-Italy soccer game in a bar full of crazy Italians. My friends and I were going nuts after the Italians scored for us to tie it up and then after the Italian recieved a red card. We thought for sure we were going to walk out of the bar a winner when things started to change. The US proceeded to get two red debateable red cards and we were playing 9 on 10 for most of the second half. After we scored out second goal. My friends and I were jumping up and down screaming because we forgot who was around us. A few seconds later the goal was whiped off because of an off-sides call and all the Italians in the bar jumped up and cheered in our faces. haha serves us right I guess. It was sure a night to remember. After the tie, the Italians let us leave the bar in one piece and I guess that is all we can ask for. I have become such a huge soccer fan since I have been over here with my two friends who have always been huge fans. The World Cup craze is undescribable in Europe right now. That was our first of our two fun nights.

The next night, after touring more of the city. Colin, Duncan, and I went on a pub crawl with 120 other English speaking people. We drank for free from 9-10 and then we went from pub to pub the rest of the night. We recieved a free shot at each of the three pubs we attended as well. It was crazy. We probably drank a little too much but we still found our way back to the hostel. I definitely enjoyed the nights in Rome better than the site seeing, but it was all still cool.

The next morning after the pub crawl, we had to get up after only four hours of sleep and catch our train to Nice, France. The train ride was sweet because we rode on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea for most of it. It was just beautiful. Anyway, we got to Nice and we went to eat, watched the Spain-Tunisia game, and then called it a night.

This morning, we woke up and hit the beach. Colin and I swam in the Mediterranean for a few hours this afternoon and then we came here to the internet cafe to book reservations in Barcelona. We will be here in Nice for the next two nights then off to Spain. It should be a blast.