I saw "Angels and Demons" with Tom Hanks last weekend. I quite enjoyed it. It wasn't as confusing as "The Da Vinci Code", and was certainly more accessible. The scenery was nice too, of course. I particularly enjoyed seeing the Castle Sant'Angelo, which I was very impressed by when I was in Roma several years ago.
I went to Roma after I graduated from Eastern with my Bachelors. I had this "Grand Tour" idea, to start from Rome and bike ride through Europe; I had planned to eventually end up in London. Sounds like a pipe dream, right? Well, I actually tried it. I quit my job and my apartment and flew to Roma to begin my journey. It was my first time on an airplane, and my first time traveling by myself.
The first thing that went wrong was that the airplane lost my luggage, including the parts I needed to put my bike together. Waiting for them to find my luggage, I spend two weeks in Roma wandering around and doing touristy stuff. Which was fine, as far as it went. When it came right down to it, I was lonely and scared being in Rome by myself. I eventually got the parts to at least put my bike back together, but then the roads and the Roman drivers scared the crap out of me. Thank God for open tickets! I went home after two weeks, and picked my life back up where I'd set it down.
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