Hmm

So, long day. Long, fun day though.

I woke up, did a bunch of research of a bunch of random things (soccer matches, plane tickets, etc). My roommates, who came back way later than I did from Campo de Fiori bars last night, were not waking up by the time I got hungry, so at one I set off for this takeout Chinese place about a ten/fifteen minute walk from here. For a frame of reference, by this point ten to fifteen minutes is a casual stroll for me. Anyways, got some Chinese calimari thing that was all right, but only 4.50, so a bargain.

This afternoon we went to do some more touristy stuff. Took the Colosseum tour (my 2nd time), and took a lot of pictures of that and the forum. None are really that cool to look at. The best views of the Colosseum are outside of it anyway.

Then Dan, Andy, and I took off from the girls to go get some pizza, for we were rather hungry. We found some amazingly cheap place in the Ghetto (not as dangerous as it sounds. Check the link. Saying something like that to somebody who has no idea what you're talking about gets the same look as saying you went to D.C. to go to "the Mall". Total confusion) that served pizza. The pizza had no meat on it (if you don't understand why, then, like, seriously, check the link), but it was delicious, and it was dirt cheap. The plain pizza sold at a price of 8 euro per kilo, so 2 euro worth was more than enough.

Andy wasn't feeling so hot after that, so he left, and Dan and I walked around, going around the Piazza Navona area and a little west of that. I'd never really been in the area, and there were plenty of cute little places that seemed to be in the middle of nowhere. Why we wandered, though, was to kill time before going to Scholar's Lounge, an Irish pub that swore (95% confident!) they were going to get the ND game.

No dice. Assholes. Arg. However, my frustration at them (and NBC/ ND athletic director Kevin White) for not finding a way to broadcast this is probably less than my frustration would be at the ND football team, because they just got beat down 33-3 by georgia tech. Serious distruction. I chose the right fall semester to be abroad.

Oh, and here's a link to a bunch of photos. Let me know if it doesn't work.