Day 6- Ogling Naked Statues. The Real Reason People Go To Rome.

As anyone who has visited Rome before will tell you, there are certain sights and attractions you have to visit regardless of whether or not you actually want to.  Two said sights are the Vatican Museum and St. Peter's Basilica both of which are technically located within the smallest independent state in the world (Vatican City State, a 110 acre walled enclave in the heart of Rome).  While neither of these huge tourist draws are overly exciting to me, they are definitely steeped in a lot of history and are a good way to kill some time while in Rome.  Having said that, my mind and body often times strays from the history I am supposed to be absorbing and quickly turns to much more entertaining pursuits, such as:

·         taking as many pictures as possible with the genital regions of various statues and molesting said statues while trying not to get caught by Italian security guards

·         try and covertly take pictures of other tourists that I find to be some of the most ludicrously dressed people in the world

·         pay too much for crappy food

·         wonder where all the Italian people have gone in Italy, cause all I can ever seem to see are Africans and Asians selling shit on the street!

 After soaking in a ton of history nude male statues, Colleen and I attempted to try our luck at another one of the famed Italian pasta houses.  Fail!  Not only did we get absolutely terrible service, but we were once again treated to some majorly sub-par food.  As Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen once said, When in Rome...

Seeing as how we were pretty limited on our time in Rome and Colleen had never been there before, we felt it best to stay on the tourist trail as opposed to retiring in the middle of the afternoon like my lazy ass usually prefers to do.  Our next destination was Castel Sant'Angelo, which to the best of my knowledge used to be a mausoleum and one time fortress.  Now, I am pretty sure it exists solely to drain the pockets of North American and Japanese tourists who have no idea what they are staring at or why they are there in the first place. Oh well, it provided us with some more goofy photo ops and one more ancient building I can check off the old "building bucket list".

After a hard day of touristing and not eating overly great, we felt the need to search out a good restaurant in the neighborhood where we were staying.  Inevitably, in true Brent and Colleen fashion this turned in to an epic fail and led to us ordering a bunch of weird food that we had no idea what is was and did nothing to reverse my opinion on Italian dining.  The one positive of the evening though was the fact that after purchasing a bottle of champagne and opening it up in our hotel room, it sprayed everywhere just like it does in the movies!  As a frequent purchaser of champagne, this never happens to me, so naturally it was a life-altering moment.  Yes, I am that easily amused.

~Brent~