Off to the coast!

So its been a while since my last post.  We had a review yesterday so I was a little preoccupied with that.  Now that all that business is over I can get back to enjoying Italy.  This last weekend a few of us went to check out some catacombs along an ancient Roman road.  The road was totally not designed to handle two way traffic and pedestrians.  I was fairly certain we were going to become the victim of some sort of tragic hit and run accident every time a car went by.  Along the way we noticed something that we thought looked 'cool' and paid the 2 Euro fee for a ticket.  Turns out it was the Circus of Maxentious.  Not sure on the spelling of that one but it should be close enough.  We wandered around there for a while and then moved on, continuing down the Roman road.  We stopped at a castle that we thought would be cool.  Mike persuaded us to spend the 6 Euro on a ticket, which turned out to be a ticket to a very lame space within the castle, maybe our expectations were too high?  Is climbing to the top of the castle really too much to ask for?  Regardless of our expectations, we did not get to climb to the top.  We checked out a few sculptures and on our way out asked for a reminder of the other sites for which our ticket was valid.  We were told it was valid just down the road, at a villa.  I unfortunately can not come up with the name at the moment, but it doesn't matter much what it was called.  We never reached it.  We walked along this Roman way, looking at (and climbing on/in) monuments from antiquity.  After a couple hours we gave up our search and began to return to Rome.  Our return trip is entirely another story...   Long story short (because I'm tired) is that we made it back home after taking several busses and wandering around aimlessly for a while. Upon our return we realized we were a mere 400 meters from the Villa we were searching for... 

Photos of our excursion are up at

http://s56.photobucket.com/albums/g198/b82ta/Roma/

Sorry to cut the story off, but I am exhausted.  Ho stanco (if you want the Italian equivalent...) 

Until a later date,

Adam