By Abigail Cakebread
On Sunday I performed my fourth play. It was a Cornucopia type play, with multiple plays in one big one from all the age groups. My play was Electra, a Greek tragedy. I was part of the Women of Argos, or the chorus, or the narrators. I had most of the lines that were supposed to be all of us speaking together thrusted upon me because nobody else knew them. I slayed it, if I do say so myself. I was also the crew, helping out with some of the other little kid's plays. At the end of the play when we were all bowing, the directors called Colleen and I up to say thanks and goodbye because it was also OUR LAST DAY IN IRELAND! That night, we went to the Holiday Inn Hotel for the night to get ready for the flight to where we are now; Rome, Italy!
We woke up at the crack of dawn after a not very restful night. Colleen and I had to share a bed. That never goes well. Anyway, we got up at around 4:00 am to get ready for the 6:30 flight. We waited for a taxi that we supposedly booked Sunday evening but never went through. After getting to the airport, accidentally getting the wrong boarding passes stamped, going through security, finding our terminal, and standing in the 20 minute-long line to the airplane, we boarded the plane and took off. I slept with Mom while Colleen slept on the pull-out tray. After an hour and a half more sleep, I awoke to find I hadn't unbuckled my belt and my right foot and shin was completely numb. After a painful one minute of waking my leg up, I unbuckled my seat belt and fell back asleep.
After we landed at 10:30, we took a bus to the fancy Roman hotel to dump our luggage. We went to the recommended restaurant (ristorante in Italian) and I had (shock and awe) pizza for lunch! Italian pizza is really good, it's thin and a light coating of cheese with real tomato sauce. It's sweet and spicy at the same time and it really went well with the salami on it. Mom had ministroni soup, Dad had a calzone, and Colleen had a salmon fillet. It was good and filling.
After, we walked around the Piazza de Valentini looking for a museum. While there, we spotted a huge column with carvings spiraling upwards. In front of it were broken column ruins. We walked up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down until finally we went sideways and found the museum we were originally there for. It was about an ancient Roman villa built originally in the first century A.D! The super cool thing about it was that we walked above the ruins on glass! After an earthquake, it fell apart and medieval castles were built on top of it. There were remains of the Roman baths, hot and cool, and a children's pool area. There were stairs that the family used still intact, and plates with food on them that were thrown into a pit which were trash cans. Right up next to this house was another house with a huge mosaic on the floor. It was really cool! I sometimes forget that Pompeii was not the only city that was buried.
After that, we got gelato! Ice cream here is honestly the best I've ever tasted in my life. It's going to be hard going back to American ice cream and bread.
Then we went to the Trevi Fountain. It was drained, unfortunately, because they were working on repairs, but it was still cool to see the statues and carvings of the horses and Neptune.
I've also noticed that there are a bunch of Egyptian obelisks around Rome. After two days of Rome I've seen five. They're cool, but weird.
After that, to finish up the day, we went to the Piazza del Popolo to see the Santa Maria del Popolo, the first church featured in Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. We even found the Demon's Hole and the angels statue pointing.
After, we had the longest dinner on earth and the most expensive food on earth. So, it was an Italian place and we were like 'cool!' We went in, ordered, and waited. And waited. And waited. 20 minutes later, Colleen and my food came. Then, 25 minutes after we finished the food, Mom's came. 35 minutes after Mom's food came, Dad's appetizer came. 15 minutes after he finished it, his main dish came. We ended up leaving that place at 10:30 pm. We had gone in at 7:00. Talk about a wait for the food.
We woke up at the crack of dawn after a not very restful night. Colleen and I had to share a bed. That never goes well. Anyway, we got up at around 4:00 am to get ready for the 6:30 flight. We waited for a taxi that we supposedly booked Sunday evening but never went through. After getting to the airport, accidentally getting the wrong boarding passes stamped, going through security, finding our terminal, and standing in the 20 minute-long line to the airplane, we boarded the plane and took off. I slept with Mom while Colleen slept on the pull-out tray. After an hour and a half more sleep, I awoke to find I hadn't unbuckled my belt and my right foot and shin was completely numb. After a painful one minute of waking my leg up, I unbuckled my seat belt and fell back asleep.
After we landed at 10:30, we took a bus to the fancy Roman hotel to dump our luggage. We went to the recommended restaurant (ristorante in Italian) and I had (shock and awe) pizza for lunch! Italian pizza is really good, it's thin and a light coating of cheese with real tomato sauce. It's sweet and spicy at the same time and it really went well with the salami on it. Mom had ministroni soup, Dad had a calzone, and Colleen had a salmon fillet. It was good and filling.
After, we walked around the Piazza de Valentini looking for a museum. While there, we spotted a huge column with carvings spiraling upwards. In front of it were broken column ruins. We walked up and down and up and down and up and down and up and down until finally we went sideways and found the museum we were originally there for. It was about an ancient Roman villa built originally in the first century A.D! The super cool thing about it was that we walked above the ruins on glass! After an earthquake, it fell apart and medieval castles were built on top of it. There were remains of the Roman baths, hot and cool, and a children's pool area. There were stairs that the family used still intact, and plates with food on them that were thrown into a pit which were trash cans. Right up next to this house was another house with a huge mosaic on the floor. It was really cool! I sometimes forget that Pompeii was not the only city that was buried.
After that, we got gelato! Ice cream here is honestly the best I've ever tasted in my life. It's going to be hard going back to American ice cream and bread.
Then we went to the Trevi Fountain. It was drained, unfortunately, because they were working on repairs, but it was still cool to see the statues and carvings of the horses and Neptune.
I've also noticed that there are a bunch of Egyptian obelisks around Rome. After two days of Rome I've seen five. They're cool, but weird.
After that, to finish up the day, we went to the Piazza del Popolo to see the Santa Maria del Popolo, the first church featured in Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. We even found the Demon's Hole and the angels statue pointing.
After, we had the longest dinner on earth and the most expensive food on earth. So, it was an Italian place and we were like 'cool!' We went in, ordered, and waited. And waited. And waited. 20 minutes later, Colleen and my food came. Then, 25 minutes after we finished the food, Mom's came. 35 minutes after Mom's food came, Dad's appetizer came. 15 minutes after he finished it, his main dish came. We ended up leaving that place at 10:30 pm. We had gone in at 7:00. Talk about a wait for the food.
So, that was the first day! I'm excited to have someone else tell you the adventures of today. Hint: It contains actual near-death incidents.
This is Abigail Cakebread, signing off.
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