Rome, Sweet, Rome

After an epic weekend in Capri we jumped on a train and headed north for Rome.
Mike are you excited to go to Rome?

I'll take that as a YES!

We arrived on Sunday evening and got right back into our routine - lots of drinks, cuban cigars for me, and an awesome dinner. We found a little cafe where the ridiculously flamboyant gay owner (Giuseppe) told Kyle that he wouldn't even watch him in a gay porno. That was good for a laugh. Kyle was so upset that I had to console him in the gayest way possible to make him feel better.

After dinner we bounced around to some bars - the neighborhood we were in was a lot of fun, it had almost a college town feel to it. At the last bar we visited Jay found someone special and was very upset when it was time to leave:

Our first full day in Rome we took to the streets and walked up the equivalent of Rodeo Drive in Rome (I definitely don't remember the name of the street). It was a really nice walk and we came across my retail store

We also walked through some incredible piazzas & squares and found great elevated viewpoints overlooking the entire city.



Not too far from where we took the above picture we came across the trippiest "park" with crazy art - weird designs, colors, shapes. I thought we had arrived in Amsterdam early. My favorite sculpture by far was Super Queeros (this is Batman laying down and Superman about to mount him):

After walking around all day we stumbled upon the coolest row of bars/clubs on the banks of the Tiber River (which runs right through the city). We chilled at a really cool place with an awesome DJ and we were introduced to Apertivo! Apparently it's common in Italy (and throughout Europe) for bars/cafes to put out huge free buffets from like 6 - 9. It's amazing!

We stayed at the bar until last call and then headed home for the night.

We organized a private tour of ancient Rome - the forum & the coliseum - for Tuesday, our final full day in Italy's capital. We got a great history lesson and our guide was a total smokeshow!

After our tour was over we walked around the Vatican on our own, which was cool, and then found a most interesting mode of transportation that some of the boys took out for a spin.

After a long day of wandering the Roman streets we had an incredible dinner at a restaurant near our hotel and then headed out for one last shit-show in Rome.
No pictures from our last night in Rome but I can assure that we tore it up.