Finally Time to Blog

It is 11:30 in Florence and this is the first time I have been able to blog.

I walked my shoes off in Rome, I mean literally. The soles of my Ecco's started to come apart.

Still I was able to perservere and walk around the town.

We met our guide Sylvia and toured the Vatican, Sylvia was a was a smart idea. She pointed out some very interesting details. For example in the lower right hand side of the last judgment is a portrait of a cardinal that Michelangelo didn't like. He is pictured in hell with a snake biting his private parts. The girls got a kick out of this but I thought it was little strange.

Our favorite restaurant was a place called Lucci's. It is a fun a little Trattoria near the coloseum. You had to sit right next to other people and whether or not you wanted too, you became friends. Ordering at this restaurant was fun. If you asked for something and they did not feel like serving it to you they just gave you what they wanted to give you. All I know was that the house wine was great.

The colloseum was magnificent, of course you know Gail would find an interesting detail. She found the vomitarium. This is where the Vestal virgins would go if the games got too bloody, so they had a place to get sick. I guess everyone else just got sick all over each other.

The games were not that much different form tailgating. People had food, drink yelled and got sick. I guess the only big difference is that sometimes the losers died. However not as often as you think mainly because of the expense of training the gladiators. It is all about the money.