Gallavanting through ROMA & Fiesole

This Saturday I got to see the Eternal City and it absolutely blew my mind!!! Everything that the Romans did...they just did it better. All of the buildings are so imposing and rich with history...I got to see the famous Colosseum, Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Pantheon, and Vatican City all in a day's work! I originally didn't think I was going to get to see Rome, for time and planning reasons, but my host mom recommended a travel agency and so I got to go. It was amazing...I took about 200 pictures in one day and my jaw was dropping every 5 minutes. I loved all of the baroque architecture and the panoramic views that I got from my bus tour. I wined and dined well in Piazza Navona with a cute Italian couple, and ate gnocchi, bruschetta, and then some gelato! The Italian couple I met basically adopted me for the day, it was so cute...we all took pictures of one another and at the end of the excursion they bought me a guide of Rome in Italian as a little gift! All in all I was so happy that I got to see such an important city and that I did it on my own. Sunday, even though I was tired, I didn't have much work to do and my high from Rome pushed me to take a 20 minute bus to a hillside town overlooking Florence, called Fiesole. There I took some of the most gorgeous pictures of the entire city of Florence (from a birds eye view) that may even trump my photos from Piazzale Michalengalo. Pictures to come soon, xoxo!