Rome for Real

Ok, seriously. We did so much on our first day here that we kind of petered out fast. So, the Coloseum, Roman Forum, Capital Hill Museum in one day. The second day was out to Vatican city and stuff, but by the time we wanted to climb to the top of the dome, the line was super huge so we decided to come back another day. Then yesterday, we pretty much decided to take it easy cause the National Museum lady was a cow, so we left and went to the Villa Borghese (land-park area) and chilled until our reservations at 3 for the Borghese Gallery which was pretty good art (sculptures by Bernini and other paintings). While there, I saw an ad thing for other galleries so today we went to one part of the National Gallery (everything here has 2-6 locations...). And it was good! I've decided that I really like paintings etc by da Cortona, and Bernini was a pretty cool guy. There was some good stuff by Caravaggio there as well. We actually got in free because of some holiday-kind-of-celebration-thing which was cool because the palace it was in was under construction so not all the art was out, but we basically saw what we went for. There was a ceiling frescoe there by da Cortona and, while the Sistine Chapel is impressive in size and stuff, I honestly liked this stuff better.
Funny story this morning. So, we decided to go back to St Peter's to climb the dome, knowing that we'd have to go early, but we were tired and didn't leave until after 9:30 or something ridiculous (Eric's fault) and by the time we got there (decided to try any way), I remembered that there was a viewing with the Pope at 11 this morning and what time was it? 10:45... so while there was no line to climb the dome, the line to get into St. Peter's (securtiy bull-crap)curved through the zig-zag set up and was already past the entrance to the piazza and working it's way back towards the building... so we didn't go. Oh well.
Gonna do a day trip tomorrow in Siena on the way to Florence. We made reservations to see the Uffizi and Accademia in Florence (highly recommended, skipping lines is cool) and I wrote down the reservation number and the times we go in... but I forgot to actually write down the days. I'm pretty sure which days, but we need to call them tomorrow and check cause, ya, pretty sure we need to be in one of them the next day.
Oh, celebrated Canada Day with pasta and wine. Eric had pizza. Technically, it's cheaper, but I seriously needed something other than pizza cause he orders it everyday. Seriously.
And, check out the comments on my Naples day. Any one read that? pretty sure it's spam, whoever Ricardo or whatever is, lol.