Day 20 - Rome

Crazy day today.
Caught the train from Florence to Rome at the crack of dawn and aimed to get stuck straight into sight seeing once we had dropped our bags at the hostel. Decided it would be a good idea to fork out for a hop on hop off sight seeing bus to save time (wrong). Discovered that the Vatican wasnt open to visitors due to an Italian holiday (don't know why we didn't know about this before!) which was annoying! But the weather was nice when we got there so we decided to do the colosseum and obviously we went to the top deck (no roof). Few minutes later thunder starts and then lightning - probably never heard such loud thunder in my life. Stuck it out as long as we could on the top deck but it started throwing it down (we were all wearing summer dresses) and it felt a bit unsafe with forks of lightening all over the place!
Went back for raincoats, and then the sun decided to show its face! Finally got to the colosseum a few hours later after waiting over an hour for another bus!
The day improved after that, the colosseum was very impressive and we also went to Palatine Hill and Roman Forum. Then went to Hard Rock Cafe this evening!
So much to cram in tomorrow, and its forecasted rain (at least we'll be prepared this time).