Rome day 3

 Friday morning we woke up we grabbed some nutella(instead of peanut butter) and jam at the store and headed to the National Museum of Rome. It was on our Roma pass, so we thought we would hit it since we had already paid. It took us a little over an hour to go through it. We aren't huge artsy people, so staring at different kinds of art that have half of them missing didn't take us too long. The discus thrower was pretty cool though. Blake and Eric even gave it at try!

"Discobolus"

"Discobolus" and trainees

Funny view of the room, all back sides

So walking around Rome you just kind of get used to naked statues everywhere! I thought it was quite funny, but I'm glad I didn't have to explain to my kids why all of the statues were naked. 

After the museum we caught a subway at termini and took it to a train station, where we caught a train to the beach!!! It was a beautiful day. Not quite warm enough for a swim in my book, but we had a nice relaxing day at the beach. I read my book while the boys walked around and Eric even went for a swim. We even enjoyed some Gelato on our walk.

What I did all day

Using a shell to spread nutell on bread

Preparing to swim...

Running...

And swimming. He said it wasn't too bad

Mens toilet

Eric demonstrating how mens toilet is used. Hmmm... GROSS!

After the beach we headed back towards Rome to find some dinner. We walked around for a while until it was dinner time, then started asking people where was a good place to eat. We finally found a place some people had told us about and as soon as we sat down knew it was out of our league. We aren't really fancy people and they immediately brought us each a glass of Champagne? Some kind of alcoholic drink. We were pretty uncomfortable and the food was pretty pricey. When we ordered our food the waitor asked if we were going to start with a first course because we had all ordered off the second course menu. We only got 1 course and some bread and it was twice as much as we spent at our first dinner and no where as good. We thought it was good to have a fine dining experience once though. That was all we could handle. Like I said, we aren't fancy people.

After dinner we headed out for 1 more night of night life in Rome. On one of the little streets there were a bunch of people outside a bar in Rugby Jerseys. I guess Scotland had played Italy, so there were tons of Scottish people there. They were playing the bagpipes and having lots of fun. We watched them for a while while we ate our gelato, then continued on our walk.

We almost missed our busses again this night, but luckily we were much closer to a bus stop and we knew it would get us home. 

St. Peter's Basilica at night

St. Peters square