Day 13- Trevi Fountain, Pantheon

Man, this has been an absolute thing. We are on our last day in Rome and then we are heading to the airport hotel tomorrow. We plan to do nothing tomorrow. We head back to the states on Tuesday.

First up today, the Trevi Fountain.

I have never seen so many people in one place in my entire life. There were like 10,000 people in this square. It was hard to move. 4/5 because of all of the people.

Then we ran into this guy doing a one-man-band gig. 5/5. I think he is a midget but I don’t know the height qualifications. He was probably 3’7. Is that midget status? Maybe we will never know. The kids were obsessed with him which makes me think he is, though. They couldn’t get enough of this little fella.

Then we made it to the Pantheon. We did not go inside because crowds. I have a soft spot for the Pantheon because Rafael’s tomb is located inside.

If you aren’t familiar with Rafael, he is the OOG (Original Original Gangster.) He was born 500 years before your run-of-the-mill OGs, like Eazy-E, Snoop, John Shaft, the Counting Crows lead singer, and John Mayer. Rafael was considered a master painter as a teenager, and the pope called him to Rome when he was 17 where he began his female conquests. Some sources even said his death was linked to an all-nighter with one of his mistresses. Rafael was commissioned to paint “The School of Athens” in the Vatican, a painting about Greek philosophers. He painted all of his buddies as the Greek philosophers. Fucking LEGEND.

Instead of going in, we had lunch and people-watched. Suddenly, Evie started to cry.

I thought she might be overwhelmed by the beauty of Rome, but it turned out that the one-man-band midget showed up (see background) and she got really sad because she thought nobody wanted to play in a band with him. I told her that if I played an instrument, I would be back in Rome to meet with that guy in a fucking heartbeat to try out for his band. This did not console her. Teenage hormones I guess.

Anyway, this will probably be my last post for the trip unless anything weird happens in the airport hotel tomorrow. If you liked reading my blog, please feel free to not subscribe to anything because I am never doing this again. Also don’t smash any like buttons because I don’t care. Ciao.