Rome

Since my sister is good at giving everyone the overview, I like to give the behind the scenes. Rome is very nice, but being here has really showed me that 6 weeks is nowhere near enough time to go around Europe. After sleeping on a ferry one night and a train the next (two nights sleeping vertical is horrible) all we wanted to do was sleep, but we knew our time was limited. We ventured out, like my sister said, and took a tour. It was spectacular to see everything, but I feel like we didn't truly experience everything. We spent a couple hours in the Vatican Museum. It's the second largest museum in the world so two hours is not enough time. We saw what we could...the Sistine Chapel, and ran through other parts. It was so much amazing artwork and history. I could've spent ages in there, but Meaghan didn't seem to take much interest in the whole Vatican experience. Now we're headed off to Florence and then Venice and then finally Vienna. Both Italian cities will be brief stays where we just get a taste of what they have to offer. I don't like leaving stones left unturned, but I don't think you could fully experience Rome in 10 years. There's just too much. Hopefully once we get staying with people, we will slow down our trip and get deeper into the culture. I'd have no problem skipping out on the touristy things and just doing and seeing the things that I will get the most out of. Seeing the Colliseum today was cool, but seeing these giant structures almost gets repetative, and Macchu Pichu beats them all. I'd rather meet some cool people and take in the landscape and culture rather than ride on a tourist bus seeing monuments I've seen many times in pictures. All in all, our Europe trip has been very great, just rushed and a bit too touristy (yes, we are tourists, it's inevitable).