Museums and churches

On the third day of the trip my roommates and I got up at six o'clock after a much needed night of rest and went down to the lobby for breakfast. The breakfast there was rather bland, there was bread, coffee, yogurt, and some small pastries. And I don't even drink coffee. I was several minutes before the rest of our group showed up so I read my book while they ate. The first thing we did after leaving the convent was split into three groups and go buy some paninis (or sandwiches) for lunch. Next we took a subway (my first time) to a large museum called the Mvseo della Civilita Romana or the Museum of the Civilization of Rome. They had many ancient Roman sculptures and artifacts as well as many scale models of ancient Roman building. I think that the most amazing things that they had were a scale model of Rome at its peak that filled up a large room. And a copy of Trajan's column that depicted the events of the Dacian war cut into small panels and placed in rows with descriptions.


During this day we also went to the two churches that were closed the day before. One of them had an awesome statue of Moses while the other was actually three churches from different ages stacked on top of each other. Next we went back to the convent to rest for a little while before going to dinner around six as we would do really every day of the trip from then on. This time we went o a pizza place called Leonardo's. And when we finished there we went and got some gelato before we went back to the convent for bed.