I can't believe that I have less than two days left in Paris. This year has gone by too quickly. I remember thinking, at the beginning, that June was a long way off from August. But the time has flown by, I've done so much, met so many wonderful people, and am really going to miss this place. Now, instead of worrying about classes and getting bank accounts, etc, I'm worried about closing accounts and fitting everything I have into two big suitcases.
And since coming back from my two week vacation to Greece, I've been busy putting off packing, saying goodbye to wonderful friends, and trying to soak in the last few days in Paris.
But before I get ahead of myself and write a post dedicated to my year abroad, I'm going to try and finish posting about my end of the year travels!
The last time I posted (quite a while ago =\), I talked about my trip to Italy. So, here are pictures from my Rome trip. Again, most of these pictures are stolen from my friends, Jamie and Aly. :) And they're all out of order! But hopefully you'll enjoy them anyway. In the meantime, I really should go finish packing...
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| Vatican Museum Courtyard |
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| Vatican Museum |
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| Raphael fresco in the Vatican museum |
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| Sistine Chapel - pictures actually not allowed.. oops |
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| Sistine Chapel ceiling |
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| Trevi Fountain with my fellow travelers :) |
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| Colosseum |
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| Vatican |
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| Vatican Museum |
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| Sistine Chapel |
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| Vatican |
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| Inside St Peter's Basilica! |
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| From the top of St. Peter's Basilica |
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| Jamie and I on top of St. Peter's |
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| St. Peter's Basilica |
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| And again |
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| Michelangelo's Pieta inside the basilica |
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| On top of the basilica |
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| In the basilica |
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| in front of the basilica |
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| lunch time! bruschetta |
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| lunch in front of the pantheon |
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| the oculus in the pantheon |
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| piazza navona |
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| wedding cake building in front of piazza venezia |
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| and again |
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| castel sant'angelo - place of hadrian's tomb |
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| trevi fountain |
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| and again with the americans |
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| inside the roman forum (these next ones are all from there!) |
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| pantheon again - remember how i said these were out of order? :P |
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| oculus again |
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| spanish steps |
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| vatican post! |
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| waiting for the pope |
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| ready for mass with the pope! (next two are also from st. peters) |
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| vatican |
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| colosseum |
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| campo de fiori |
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| pasta! |
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| apparently the uw rome center? didn't know, but thought it was a cool building :) |
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| fruit cups in campo de fiori |
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| why is marine le pen here?! |
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| last dinner together in rome |
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| the pope!!! |
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| st peters |
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| campo de fiori |
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| vatican museums |
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| pringoals? |
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Colosseo!
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Overall, a great trip to Rome, but I was glad to be back in Paris :) Okay, time to pack... wish me luck! I really need it..
