Day 29 - Rome

Got up at 10ish and picked up Fabienne across town, caught some breakfast with her, and then walked to meet up with the rest of the gang (Dave, Rob, Anne, and Emilie). We ended up hanging out outside of Termini for about an hour waiting for everyone to be ready. It ended up being kinda fun just watching the craziness that is Termini in Roma.

Once we finally got everyone together we set off for the Catacombs a few kilometers south of the city. We jumped the Metro and then waited for teh 660 bus, which didn't seem to want to come. I was in a great mood all day and serenaded the ladies all day with stories of potato trucks, hockey games, getting stinko and forgetting about Inco, a girl who loves 'the way it feels, driving snowmobiles', and of course, a guy with a girls name. I'm postive that both Fabienne and Emilie will be wearing the heels off their boots stomping to the songs in their heads in both London and Paris by Christmas.

We got tired of waiting for teh bus, so we decided we'd try to walk it to find the Catacombs. We were well out of the heart of the city, so there were no tourists around and it turned out to be pretty tough. We let the girls take charge all day, so us boys just wandered behind the whole day and besides, its alot easier getting directions around here when you're a pretty girl rather than one of us boys.

We ended up on this narrow road/highway with no sidewalks and traffic flying by in each direction, it was quite the time. We finally got there and figured we'd wasted too much time walking and wouldn't even be able to go in, but ended up getting a guided tour of the Catacombs of San Callisto which was used to bury over 500 thousand Christians during the times when Christian's were being persecuted in Rome around 200 AD. The whole thing was underground adn we only to see a few small sections because, as you can imagine, with half a million bodies buried in underground tombs, the place was unimaginably huge and a HUGE maze.

After the tour, we all jumped a bus back into Rome and then all went back to get cleaned up for dinner. We went back to the same place for the 3rd night in a row. With Italian restaurants they say if you go once, you're treated great, but as a guest; you go twice, you're treated like a friend; you go back three times though, and they treat you like family. Definately was the case for us anyways. Again though, I think they just really liked the pretty girls.

They were full when we got there, so the manager made the crew put out another table for us right away while we drank free champagne on the sidewalk. The meal and service was great again, as well as the company. We got another free bottle of champagne and wine and the manager at one point after the meal, turned out all the lights adn the staff came out with a piece of cake with a candle and sung Fabienne happy birthday; I think i remember her saying her birthday isn't till January.

After dinner, the original plan was to go home to bed, but Emilie wanted to go down to this bar to see about getting a job for 3 months, so everyone but Rob went with her. On the way to the club, we came around this corner into a huge square with people EVERYWHERE. I've never seen anything like it. The whole square was lined with bars, and people were everywhere drinking and hanging out. Its hard to estimate, but i'd guess there were AT LEAST 5000 people just partying in the middle of the street. It was awesome. After that we got to this club where Emilie had met a bartender who was going to hook her up with a contact for a job and i figured we were only there for a drink. Then Dave orders a round of tequila shooters. Game on! Then the whole night went to shit. We were there till 4:30am and then me, Dave and Anne took off and the other two girls left on their own (well, Fabienne went home alone, i heard other rumours about Emilie though). By the time we got home it was after 5.

Up at 8am to head to Pompeii.