Friday may 18th! blog 14

Bonjourno! that means good morning! writing this to you the morning after because last night... Somehow I fell asleep by 8 o'clock. pathetic! my last open night in Rome and I fall asleep! oh well. yesterday was our last day meeting up with Paulo as our tour guide. we went and saw some mid-evil churches around Rome, and found out that the English version. of what we call midevil is different to what it was here in Rome. instead of gothic castles, the Romans were trying to prevent the gothic influence, so these churches were built as sanctuaries and monasteries. the first one we saw..which I don't have the nAme of on me...something about four men, was built as a fortress for the pope to protect against German invasions. it's now a monastery. the next church we saw was actually an circular church. This church had paintings on the side depicting the ways various people were put to death as martyrs for Christianity. They were very gruesome. This church is said to be one of the locations or axis for the final judgement, because it is circular. The final church and location we went to see was two houses built in the early centuries under a church. The church is of saint Paul and Peter, because it was said in the houses, they found an urn and they knew it was a sacred urn that held ashes of at least 2 saints, and it's thought to be Paul and Peter. I might of messed that up, but it was something like that. It was again really cool to be in the remains of an ancient house and to see what was still preserved and left over. After we left paulo, Kate, Alex, and I went back to the apartment, we were very proud of our map skills in e again. Once we made it back to the apartment, we geared up and headed back out (after lunch) to go to the pantheon again and really look around. It was once again a very cool site to see. After the pantheon we decided to just walk around towards the Trevi fountain. We stopped at a few stores on the way. ...and somehow ended up by the coliseum. So we just hopped in a bus and headed home. Once home, we took another break, then headed out to find a burkenstock store we had stumbled across once, but didn't mark on a map nor did we stop...of course,we couldn't find it. So we stopped early for a restaurant for supper. This one was prescribed to me by cousin Beth. and it was delicious! All three of us at all our food. And it was such good food!!! We came back to our apartment..and I fell asleep. And that's how our night ended. Today we visit the catacombs, and will also be an early night because we have a flight to Venice we are getting picked up for at 3:30 am. Gross.
Pic 1. With Paulo!
Pic 2, the third church
3. Food
4. Circular church
5. Empty plates
6. First church