Detailed Day 2 in Rome

our second day in rome started with a nice breakfast in our hotel. they have interesting breakfast there: there are croissants, jam, these crusty rolls, salami, prosciutto and cheese. so i ate a crusty roll (when i say crusty, i actually mean it in a good way. you know, those rolls that are crusty on the outside and soft inside?) with prosciutto and cheese. interesting but i do love some cheese! we then had to switch hotels because we got one night in this fancy hotel (thanks government!) and then since we were paying for the rest of the nights, we switched to a cheaper hotel. it was super cute though and small, which is something i like because i feel like you get to be friends with the staff. after we got our stuff settled in, we decided to walk toward the vatican. on the way, we saw LOTS of really great architecture.

this was a great tower/statue/thing we saw on the way

when you get closer, you can see all the figures carved into it

this is one of my favorite pictures i took

we walked along the river for a nice view and found some great bridges. this is a view from one of the bridges looking to the vatican.

there was a cute little park type thing that had some little carts selling different things and a carousel and benches all around.

on the bridge there were statues of various saints. i love bridges with statues and this was my favorite- birds landed on his head!!!

lp on the bridge

it's like a catalog shoot- ha!!

before we went to the vatican, we decided to find something to eat (it took a while for us to get there) so we wandered around vatican city before landing on pizza. i had pizza 4 ways- it had mushrooms on one quarter, artichokes on another, zucchini on another and the last had olives (sick!!). lp ate the part with olives. with our lunch we had some delicious wine because why not!

entering vatican city

vatican

lp at the vatican

me at the vatican

funny guys at the vatican

the line to get in was RIDICULOUS and it started raining, so we decided to wait to go inside and picked up an umbrella and walked to the trastevere area. there were lots of cute shops and we wandered in and out of them for a while, but it started raining harder so we decided to stop for a beer. we sat outside and watched the rain in a little piazza area. there were lots of statues (can you tell i kind of have a thing for statues?) so i took some pics.

it finally stopped raining so we decided to head back. we stopped in a few more shops and uh! so much cute stuff!! i also HAD to take a picture of one of the gelato shops. there was so much gelato in these places, it was hard to pick what kind you wanted when you got there. check it out-
yum! so we went back to the hotel and i took another nap. when i got up, it was almost 6 so i started getting ready and we decided to walk to find a place to eat. i had heard of this place that was kind of fancy and was supposed to have good seafood so we ended up heading there. it was soo good! they gave us prosecco when we arrived and amouse busche!! they are those little bites that start a meal- i love when restaurants serve them! we started our meal with oysters and tuna tartare. i had crab linguine for my meal and lp had something with prawns (it was good!). since we had decided to take it easy that night and not go out, we sprang for dessert, which i rarely do. oh. my. goodness. i had the BEST cannolis- the outside was white chocolate!!! lp laughed at me because i was in serious heaven. we rolled, er, i mean, walked home and i passed out soon after! it was a great second day!!!