We Came, We Crawled, We Conquered

Saturday was an early start--we met at 7:30 and ate breakfast at Bar Danielle (bar is a cafe and pub is a bar in Italy) and I had my very first cappuccino!

Then we took the metro umm somewhere that led us to a longgg road to the catacombs. We toured the catacombs of San Callisto and San Sebastiano. These catacombs are underground burial places that stretch over 30,000 miles and are dated back to the 2nd century! All the bones are disintegrated because the marble stones placed over the graves were stolen. Being Christian was illegal back then, so this was a way for Christians to bury their loved ones in secret. Many families were buried together and nine of the Popes were buried in San Castillo. I liked our first tour in San Callisto, but I didn't really like the one in San Sebastiano because the tour guide was boring, hard to understand, and talked sooo fast I couldn't even process the words he was saying--but the gist is that Saint Sebastian's tomb is in that catacomb. That catacomb is underneath a church. I thought it was so cool--I can't even begin to wrap my mind around how long ago that was.

We stopped by a church on our way to the long walk to the second catacombs. There was a marble carving of the impressions of Jesus's footsteps, and the real impressions were in the church above San Sebastiano catacomb (apparently they're real). 

I decided to light an offering candle even though I'm not Catholic and I didn't know what I was doing. So after struggling to light the candle, I blew out the weird thing we used to light it, and being the idiot that I am, I blew in the direction of the candles and blew out like six people's candles. womppp. I then proceeded to relight them and then once again, being retarded, I did the same exact thing! I was so embarrassed, like really, how stupid can you get? And of course, the lighter thing wasn't cooperating so it took forever to relight them for the second time, and then finally, I had some sense and turned away from the candles. Nuns were in their praying the whole time this was going on. I'm probably going to Hell, right? I mean blowing out people's offerings to God must be sacrilegious. Yeah I'm going to Hell.

Saturday night our entire group signed up for a pub crawl. We saw an advertisement for it on our maps and googled it and signed up for the Colosseum pub crawl. We met the organizers of it at the metro station by the Colosseum and they led us to this sketchy bar in the back of a building with no sign (at least I don't think so haha) and we paid 20 euro and got a ticket for a welcome shot which was lemoncello, a ticket for a shot of tequila, a ticket for a drink, and a ticket for a t-shirt at the end of the night. We got there at 9:30 and it was open bar until 10:45. After we had the two shots, we got a drink of our choice and when we finished it, we went to the front to get another drink ticket. I tried "sex in a bush" and "jack sparrow" which were really good (I need to try to find out how to make them)! Our pub crawl "tour group" consisted of mainly the twenty of us, but there were also some people around our age from Germany and England which was really cool. At 10:45ish they led us through residential neighborhoods and everyone was really rowdy and they kept trying to quiet us down, but really? We finally made it to this strip of bars and walked right into this nightclub that one of the pub crawl tour guides was part owner of, but the drinks were 10 euro..boo. They were playing sucky house music, but then we discovered all these other rooms that were playing the popular songs that we hear at parties in America and it was really fun! A lot of creepers though haha. Actually the whole thing kind of sounds sketchy, but it was definitely a unique and fun experience, and everyone made it home alive! Hey, and I got a t-shirt!