Roma

After getting off the train from Florence to Rome, we got to the the apartment and loved it! Mom and dad had their own apartment. Us kids had the room down the hall way! Guess what, our apartment is right down the road from the Trevi Fountain! If you throw a coin in the fountain, you get to go back to Rome. It worked for mom and dad!  The next day we did a private tour of Rome . We saw Trevi Fountain, The Colosseum and The Forum. The Forum is 2,000 years old. Rome is very old. It was created before Christ. Back then they explained the sun, rain, and the oceans by saying certain people controlled them. If any one is reading or has read Percy Jackson and The Olympians they know what  I'm talking about. They believed in pagan gods . They built temples for the gods. The Forum was the piece of land they built the temples on. Many ruins remain. When visiting I picked up a rock! After visiting the Forum we went to the Colosseum. The Colosseum is called that because of a colossal statue that use to stand right next to the Colosseum. We went in to the Colosseum and saw how they used it . This is where the Gladiators fought. It was very fun!  Tuesday we went to a Church called the Pantheon. This very famous Church has a hole on top. This hole was believed to take any one who got under the hole up to the gods. Later on it was turned into a Church. On Wednesday, we went to The Vatican. This is a Church that was turned into the smallest country in the world. This is where the pope lives. Every Wednesday he goes out on his terrace and speaks to the crowd. He even speaks in English.  The Sistine Chapel is located inside The Vatican. This is where Michelangelo painted the . He painted the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He even painted The Last Judgement after the pope died. It was fun being in The Vatican. For the rest of the week we were kind of lazy. Today we got on a train that was taking us to Naples! Pizza capital of the World !   
   

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