As much as I like to do my own thing when I travel, when time is limited, tours are the way to go! You get all of the information generally in a very entertaining fashion and you get to skip all the lineups and see everything you want to see. The only downside is you time can be restricted but at least it's not wasted. Sure beats audioguides and reading endless signs to get your education. Tours are always a little pricier than general admission obviously but as today showed us, worth every penny!
We slept in until 8 (which is late for both of us) and got ready, out the door and off for our little breakfast shortly after 9. Or maybe it was more like 930... Delicious croissants, dare I say better than France? Then headed in the direction of the Colesseum. The biggest item aside from the Vatican on the Rome checklist. Nothing here in Rome is apparent it seems. Streets change names randomly and then go back, signs mislead you to non-existant Mickey Ds and entrances to attractions are impossible to find. Clearly our confused tourist expressions caught the attention of our charming new friend Chad who sold us on the tour. Skip the 2 hour ticket lineup just to get in to the
The tours were fantastic. The Colosseum really is as magnificent as they say it is. How they built that over 2000 years ago is beyond me. As she described it you could just imagine what it had looked like with all of the marble and the floor of the arena. AMAZING! The Palatino and Roman Forum were equally as impressive but we almost missed that part of the tour because Robyn wanted to get her picture taken with some Gladiators (who ripped her off LOL) but the pictures are priceless. They were there and then they were GONE... our tour group I mean. So we rushed off in the direction we thought they were going hoping to catch up. Luckily a nice british guy who was in our group came back to find us and lead us to the group. Lifesaver! We would never have found them otherwise. We had a different tour guide for the Palatino and Roman Forum. His name was David. Perhaps not as cute as our Chad from USA but still ruggishly cute and this guy was roman and full of personality. We all know I'm a sucker for guys with personality! Needless to say I found him very entertaining and a great guide! Looking forward to hopefully doing another tour with him tomorrow to other sites. 
Post tours we explored the rest of the Forum before venturing off for food and the Trevi fountain. Did I mention nothing is apparent in Rome? Everything is confusing and clear as mud. How did it take us 2 hours to find the Trevi fountain that was like 5 min away from where we were? I'm usually pretty good at reading a map... usually! Lunch was good. Robyn was seranated by a man with an acordion. We walked endlessly and took 1 wrong turn, like we did last night we beebed when we should have bobbed and ended up like a good mile away from the Trevi fountain. Had we bobbed, we would have been like 2 minutes away. By this time my feet are splitting and my back is starting to ache. Other than the 45 min lunch, we did not sit down once for almost 8 hours. Lying in bed right now, thinking about getting up is not appealing. I stopped for gelatto again and this particular place had Soy Gelatto and yes, you've heard it here first, Robyn had 3 scoops! I'm so proud!!!! Alright, I'm thirsty again... time for more wine!
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