9/3- Aventine Hill; Bocca Della Verita; Clubbing

Day Adventure- Bocca della verita e Aventine Hill

• This morning i decided to go to "Bocca della verita" and aventine hill. for all of you "roman holiday" fans, this is the actual one!
• of course, there was a line but it was pretty short since it was pretty early in the morning.
  
• you're only allowed to take one picture. but i doubt anyone really follows that rule.
  
• and since i'm such an honest person, my hand is still intact ;)
  

• Then we went onto Aventine Hill which is one of the seven (i think) hills of rome. on each of the hills, u're supposed to get a spectacular view of the city.
  

• pictures really don't do it justice tho...so i have tried to include a video (on the bottom)
  
• there was this weird half naked dude who was trying to convince us to go have a coffee with him and asking us how long we're going to be in Rome. of course we lied! and then later we had to take detour to avoid him cuz he was so persistent
• on aventine hill, there's this keyhole (the knight's keyhole) that u can look through- you have the perfect view of a specific dome (i forgot which one). sadly, the camera cannot take it because it's way too far. but i have very good picture of me looking at it

• after all this, we still had about two hours before school so we decided to go to Santa Maria Maggiore. a huge church. churches here are strict about showing your shoulders and legs but sometimes they have pieces of cloth that let u cover up.
  

• it was very pretty in there- lots of details and paintings and statues and going in the early day is really nice cuz there's a lot of natural light
  

Avenue

• Tonight, i went out for the first time at night. usually the partying scene doesn't start till 12 and by that time, i'm dead tired. but tonight was supposed to be really fun because it was a welcome back party for all the Italian and international college students. so i was more than prepared to meet a smart, hot, nice Italian dude (i'm starting to think he doesn't exist tho)
• BUT it ended up being just alot of American students so it was kinda lame at first until ppl started dancing
  
• my drink of choice in my hand: red bull and vodka. cuz i need something to keep me awake :( i'm such a grandma here. but that's cuz i like to wake up early to go site seeing so unfortunately i get tired at like midnite
  

• so our entire apartment went to the club called "Avenue" that's next to the Colosseum.

• well i didn't take my camera so most pics are up on facebook...so feel free to browse and stalk me
• the club played like contemporary hip hop music but also lots of oldies. i can't remember any specific ones but i'll admit that i got a little drunk (2 shots before i left, then 1 beer, then 1 and 1/2 drinks)
  
• also, it's impossible to wear heels in Rome, especially if u're a clumsy person. cobblestones here will kill me!