Snow! | Rome!

Snow 

Snow is cool! That sentence could either mean that snow is cold or that snow is good; in that sentence it meant both but in this paragraph I will be talking about the latter. We have been away from home for a while now and most of that time it has been winter, so where is the snow?! Well… it seems to be following us around, for those of you in Vancouver I think it has snowed there recently, but that is not the only place we were not at when it snowed. As you may know we are in Florence right now and have been here for a while. That’s not true! We actually left and went to Rome for 3 days (more on that later). While we were in Rome it snowed in Florence! Sadly, we did not get home early enough to see it. Those two times are not the only examples. We went to Prague for Christmas because we wanted it to snow, but when we got there it was just cold! Guess what happened next! It snowed after we had left! But there’s more! You would think that being in one spot for a while would help, but when we were in Oxford it did not snow! Ok I guess that was to be expected, but after we had left… it snowed!

Rome 

Rome is the capital of Italy. It’s big, important and really really really crowded. Recently we went to Rome. It was a lot like London… I don’t think that I have talked about London. It was a lot like Rome, we got on a train, saw a whole bunch of important old monuments and buildings (of which I remember half), and then got back on the train home. In the case of Rome the important monuments and buildings that we saw (at least the ones that I remember) included:

The Trevi Fountain

This is apparently an important tourist location because it is in a lot of movies and although I have not watched those movies, it was interesting to look at.

The Pantheon

This is a old Roman temple for Pantheon (or all the gods). We had a lot of fun looking around inside and learning about how the dirt around it had built up over the years to make the Pantheon look smaller.

The Obelisks in Rome.

When the Romans conquered the Egyptians they brought a few Obelisks home as the spoils of war and erected them all around the city.  We even seen a few in Florence! I wonder whether there are any left in Egipt?

The Colosseum

 The Colosseum was the main amphitheatre of Ancient Rome. Its construction was started during Emperor Vespasian’s reign and was finished by his successor and heir Titus.  When the Colosseum opened the emperor paid for 100 days of shows to celebrate its completion. 1939 years later; we entered and looked around. When we first got there it looked big, but once inside it seemed a lot smaller than I had originally thought. This was probably because I had been in the stadium in Vancouver and it had been bigger. Then again, my view shifted when we got up to the top. From the top, the Colosseum looked huge!  The top of the Colosseum seemed bigger than all the buildings around it. (This would probably be different if there were any apartment buildings around.) Before going to the Colosseum we watched the movie “Gladiator” and went to gladiator school. It was fun. The instructor called Nina a Canadian dwarf and kept saying things like “disatre!” and “I’m gonna kill you!” First we went to a small museum about the Roman soldiers and gladiators and learned about them. Then we went outside and he taught us some sword techniques and finally we had a sword fight. (Nina won.)

Sorry about not posting in a while i will try to make up for it with many blogs.