Eurotrip: Whatever Day It Is

I'm so far behind in this, drat. So much for travel journalness, but don't worry Trusty McNally, you will get the full account in person, yay.

Rome: Absolutely incredible, easily the highlight so far (Amsterdam migth surpass it, but we'll see.) One cool bt to kinda show why: we were walking down this random unspectacular narrow cobblestone street, turned the corner, and plop! There's the Colosseum at the end of the next road. The %$#@ing colosseum, where Russel Crowe kicked Commodus's arse! Like, the actual thing! It was actually a bit smaller than it looks in the pictures, but still... THE COLOSSEUM! (or however its spelled) I had a similar "I'm actually here! What the hell am I doing here?" fluffy-numbness in front of the Eiffel Tower & in the Swiss Alps too, but it was definately at its strongest in Rome. Oh, and gelato! Oooh you must have gelato. Gelato is my new best friend, and will become Sky's best friend when he goes to Florence. It's basically this unbelievably rich (and cheap; $3 for 3 gigantic scoops on the greatest waffle cone you've ever known) creamy soft fruity gourmet Italian ice cream that has to be the greatest dessert mankind has ever invented. More on that when I come back and can gloat about it in person. On top of the whole capital-of-western-civilization-thing that already made Rome magical was the whole world cup fnal thing. Out of pure luck, we happened to be in Rome for the finals, and got to watch the whole game on this big screen set up in the ruins of the Circus Maximus (where Ben-Hur did his chariot race in the days of old) along with 500,000 nutty Italian soccer hooligans. Italy won (old news yesh), and within seconds the entire city errupted into complete chaos, with a million people crownding the streets in an area maybe 4 blocks big... even the cops where partying, I've never seen anything like that before (and prolly never will again.) Imagine USC after beating Notre Dame or UCLA, but instead of just a college campus, it's an entire capital city acting like that. Craziness I tell you, craziness. Though weaving Mika's wheelchair (cause of the foot thing) out of that crowd was no fun at all. Ahhhh the glory of Rome.

Amalfi: Our train getting here ran 3 hours late (the Italian train system thingy was horrible, no concept of the word "schedule"), so we basically only had time to eat dinner here and then had to hightail it out. Looked really pretty, wish I coulda seen it during the day though. From here we took an overnight train (which also ran absurdly late) to the Cinque Terre, now i have to pee, gonna post this jsut incase someone hijacks the internet while i'm indisposed.