Playing Tour Guide

My friend Jenelle arrived in Rome at about 5 at night.  Their taxi driver did not know where my street was even though it was a main street so they ended up just getting dropped off at the Vatican and I met them there.  As I am on my way it started to pour!  By the time I got there I was soaking wet.  The water was warm and I was already so wet it was impossible to get any wetter so I just embraced the rain.  It was fun.  I greeted Jenelle and her friend named Monica and we started on our way back to my apartment.  As the time went on the raindrops got bigger and bigger and the street began to clear.  We finally reached my apartment and got settled inside.  My apartment is big so it was easily able to accommodate my two friends and there are two spare couches so it worked out perfectly.  We went to dinner at a local restaurant that has really good pizza and gelato for dessert. Then, I took them out to show them the town at night.  Today, we woke up at 8 am to get the day started because I wanted to show them around before I had to go to class at 2.  We walked through  St. Petersburg square, then went to Piazza Novanna, the Trevi fountain, and the Spanish steps all in four hours!  I am really starting to get my groundings and know all of the shortcuts to get from location to the next.  Its nice having the river running through the entire city because it is an easy marker.  If your own the river its impossible to get lost.  For lunch we went to my favourite deli near school.  I ordered a hamburger.  It was really good and the sauce was a mixture of mayo and ketchup.  In the us that is thousand island but here it is called pink sauce.  I have some homework to do so they dropped me off at school and I showed them around a little and they just went off to explore the Vatican museum and the Sistine chapel.  I don’t end class until 6 today so I will plan on meeting up with them after!