Deanna and I headed into Rome today. We’re trying to take it easy a little…not only so we save money, but because my parents are coming on board in a couple weeks and we want things to still be fresh to us when we see it with them. So, we went to see the Cappuccini Monks and the Villa Borghese.
The Cappuccini Monks (thus named because of the hoods they would wear with their robes) have a church with an inside cemetery. The difference from most cemeteries is that this one is decorated with the bones of the dead monks…like on the walls and evert where. It isn’t that big. Just five rooms along a hallway that probably wasn’t even 100 feet long. Amidst the bone decorations were usually 5 monks…dead ones. Their robed skeletons standing with cross in hand. Some of them still had skin on them. Creepy. I didn’t research it enough to know if they were buried for a while before getting posed or if they were there straight away. It was a 1euro donation to see, so affordable and interesting!
Villa Borghese was a big park with many attractions that we just sort of walked by. As we first entered we saw a place that rented bikes. We thought we would get a tandem bike and go around the park for an hour. The guy tried to upsell us to one of those four person car-bike things saying the tandem was heavier. We said “no” but then figured it was only 10euro. He said he just needed a piece of ID to hold until we got back. I only had my ship ID and gave him that. No. He wouldn’t take it. Deanna tried to tell him that it was good. He said no. She got mad. I got my 10euro back and hauled her away. Not worth the effort for a car-bike we didn’t want in the first place.
As we were walking around our bodies realized we had walked a lot on our excursions the day before, and our brains realized we had two shows later in the night. We started to walk to the train station.
It was a long walk and I got us lost. We always say Deanna will be in charge of directions if we’re on Amazing Race…but somehow I was in charge of getting us back. Once one of us gets lost and the other knows it they will say “you’re off my Amazing Race team.”
As we were walking up to the train station we saw a crowd boarding a train that we then saw whisk off to the destination we wanted. Oh well. We then checked the schedule. The train that just left would make 9 stops before getting to Civitevecchia. The next train only made 5 and would be there in 25 minutes. Score.
Our shows seemed just slightly less attended than the ones in America, but more well received. So, that was a nice bonus.
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