Rome, Nice, and Monaco

Hey, been a while since i posted, so ive got a lot to fill you in on. So two weekends ago i went to Rome with my school. It was a blast. We had 2 days of a tour guide showing us around the whole city. Saturday was all churches and fountains and the vatican, including the vatican museum and the sistine chapel, which was breathtaking. You're not supposed to photo the sistine chapel but i snuck one blurry photo of the ceiling. And sunday was all of classical Rome. I was so excited to see all the ruins. The coliseum is the one place i've wanted to go my whole life and it was great to see it all. There's a lot of photos up so I'll let those show you my trip. Although there is one unfortunate thing that happened. I was in line to go into the coliseum and my camera died! So my photos end at the coliseum, but i saw all of classical Rome after, like the forum, tons of ruins and the Circus Maximus race track. All of which ill get photos from my friends for at some point. Saturday night we also went on a Roman pub crawl which was tons of fun. We left from the Spanish steps and i got to see a lot of Rome's night life from it. And i got a sweet shirt saying, "I came, I saw, I crawled!".

Last weekend I took a bus up with some friends to the French Riviera. We stayed in a hotel in Nice and I took a day trip to Monaco and Monte Carlo. First was our day trip to Monaco. Monaco was filled with fancy cars, boats and people. Everyone had Ferraris, Maseratis and Lambos. Especially in Monte Carlo. We had lunch on the bay in front of Multi Million dollar yachts in Monaco. Then we walked up to the Prince's Palace where we had a great view of the bays around Monaco. Then we ventured to Monte Carlo and the Monte Carlo Casino. The casino is the most famous gambling spot in the world. It was full of tux's and women covered in furs. I couldnt take any photos inside, but it waas beautiful. It was all very nice wood finished and large chandeliers. It was mostly tables, some of which people were playing like 5,000 Euro minimum poker. There were a few slots there and i tried my luck at video poker. I was up a little, but in the end i came out like most people do at Casinos, with a loss (only 20 bucks, dont worry mom). But it was great just to say I had gambled at the Monte Carlo.

Nice was beautiful and the beach was gorgeous. it was 65 the whole weekend. And it made for some great relaxin on the pebble beach. The reason we went to Nice though, was because it is the worlds largest Carnivale celebration. There was an afternoon and night parade on Saturday. The night time Parade was massive and was the biggest party ive ever been apart of. The music was great and everyone was dancing around the floats. Everyone bought tons of confetti and silly string. It was basically everyone's chance to be a jerk and get away with it, as it was encouraged to turn to ur neighbor and spray him in the face with silly string. You always tried to pick it off, but when anyone saw you trying to clean yourself, theyd jus cover ya with more. It was sweet, sweet chaos. The sights and sounds were great and I enjoyed the whole night. The bars we went to after also had great bands playin and everyone was up on the tables dancing. The whole trip was a great success and I would highly suggest everyone to make it there for Carnivale at least once in their lifetime.

This weekend: Pompei and Sorrento
And I think I'm going to the Canary Islands in 2 weeks for spring break. More on that later.

Ok heres my few albums from the weekends and 2 videos of the carnivale celebration, sorry about the shaky camera work,

Rome

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2536280&id=1950065&l=86eb0

Rome 2

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2536290&id=1950065&l=463d6

Monacco and Monte Carlo

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2538486&id=1950065&l=fff5a

Nice 

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2538504&id=1950065&l=c442e

Nice Parade 

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2538530&id=1950065&l=a377c

Carnevale Videos