the adventure continues...

Today we resumed class again after having a "weekend" for Sunday and Monday. It was a free day at the Vatican Museum on Sunday so we went and after waiting in line for 2 and a half hours finally made it inside. Since its so crowded Dr. A doesn't take the group there anymore we are just required to go on our own time and follow a "guided tour" that he had typed up for us...half of the stuff he wanted us to see was closed so that was kind of a fail but o well we still saw sooooooooooooooo much it was overwhelming!

ryan and I in front of the column base of Antonius Pious

massive pinecone statue that used to sit outside of the temple of Isis

long hallway of marble statuary that we were supposed to go look at but it was closed :(

Famous scene from the Trojan War when Laocoon and his sons are killed by sea serpents when they try to warn the Trojans that the horse is a trick. We translated this scene from the Aeneid in my Latin class senior year :)

doggies! I miss mine :(

Mary and Jesus

EXTREMELY expensive and beautiful Fabergé Eggs! I never saw the movie, but apparently these are the treasure in Oceans 12. 

my favorite one!

BEAUTIFULLL painting of the Garden of Eden

Really famous statue of Artemis!!! I have learned about this A LOT it was probably one of my favorite things of the day.

most magnificent ceiling ever on the way to the Sisitine Chapel

Michaelangelo's Sistine Chapel!!

Sistine chapel was amazinggg

tried to zoom in on the really famous part of contact between man and God.

Sunday night I also got to meet up with my cousin Mike and his fiancée Melissa for dinner :)

 

On Monday it was one of my friends birthdays and we were going to go to the beach but Rome decided to have a transportation strike and we no longer could get a train out to the beach...sooo instead we went to a waterpark!! haha it was quite the adventure and we were the only people there which was funny but it was still a great day to lay out in the sun and relax.

Today we started class again and started out by visiting the ruins of some temples from the early Republic.

After that we walked around and traced where Pompey's stone theatre (the first permanent theatre in Rome) would have been. We even went down into the basement of a local restaurant to see the substructures of the theatre!

its kinda hard to see but the red shaded area is where we were as a part of the ancient theater

substructures with opus reticulatum masonry

After this we walked through the area that during the 1930s-40s developed into a Jewish ghetto. It had a lot of pretty medieval buildings and a precious little fountain: the Fountain of the Tortoises

Next we walked the route that a victorious leader would have taken for his Triumph right past the Portico of Octavia and the Theatre of Marcellus. There was also a few columns erected from the Temple of Apollo built by Augustus.

column from Portico of Ocatavia built by Augustus but it is holding up the entablature of a restoration by Septimius Severus

columns from temple of Apollo

theatre of Marcellus. The top level now is a series of REALLY expensive apartments.

We also went to another BEAUTIFUL church! The church of S. Andrea delle Valle. (Saint Andrew)

when in Rome, always look UP

this is the second biggest dome in all of Rome, second only to St. Peters Basilica. When Rinaldi originally designed it, it was supposed to be bigger than St. Peter's but the Pope said no no no so it is slightly smaller haha

This was kind of long but it has been a couple days! Ciao!