Last day in Roma. The girls and I woke up around 10am as we had to be out of Hostel by 11. We had planned to see the Catacombs, but the ones that didn't charge entrance and that were on our way to the train station closed at noon on Sundays for siesta and didn’t reopen until 2pm. Sadness. We all packed what few bags we had and handed in the room key. Saying a sad goodbye to Hotel Colors, the five of us made off towards the leather shoppe where I had bought my belt the previous day.
While we had been there yesterday Jaimee had seen a purse that she decided she could not live without. On top of that, I had woken up that morning and put on my belt just to find that it was still too big. So Jaimee bought her white leather purse and Jen picked out a coin purse for her mother while I had the lady at the table re-size my belt. The purses were beautiful, and I plan on getting an Italian leather purse at some point, but I wanted my own purse to be from a small town where I could talk to the person who tanned the leather. I really wanted it to be special and not like any other.
Afterwards we walked around some more, bought gelato – I had the regular (larger) size for a change, with Nutella flavor and Chocolate Rum-Cake flavor. Delicious. We walked and ate, curving our path gradually towards the train station where we would be leaving on our 1.50pm train. We passed the Roman baths on the way there, but didn’t have time to go in and explore. I vow to return to Rome to explore its gardens, catacombs, aqueducts, and baths. There is really far too much to see in Rome. One could probably live there all their life and not see all of its wonders.
As we sped off away from Roma and towards Firenze I caught myself mid-thought: I am so lucky.
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