In Rome!!!

Yay, we're finally in Rome!!!


We have already slept a night in our hotel/apartment thingy and i'm really jet lagged (it's 4:00 AM here at the moment.)Our apartment is really cool. Here are some photos:

    

Our plane trip to Auckland was pretty fun, and so was the one to Singapore, but the one to Rome was sort of boring because I had already watched all the interesting movies, interesting TV programs and played all the games. Luckily when we come back there will be new movies, etc. Me and Janet both threw up on the on the way to Rome :(




The airport in Singapore is AWESOME!!! It has these skytrain thingamajigs  that take people to other parts of the airport (with nobody driving them), it has travelators, it has hundreds of shops, it has a hotel thing and it has giant Christmas decorations. We stayed in the hotel for 6 hours in between our flights.

The first four things I noticed on the way to our apartment were the pollution, the big factories, the smokers and the mini santas hanging off the windows of all the apartments. EVERYONE seems to live in an apartment building here, or sit on the street begging for money. I have seen four beggars already.

Going through customs was a relatively painless experience compared to going to Rarotonga. The were no queues or anything, we just walked straight through the nothing to declare gate, and to the train station. On our way to the train station three people tried to get us to take the airport shuttle instead of the train, including the person selling us the train tickets!

The metro was really crowded and it took nearly a minute to squeeze in. I couldn't reach a handrail, and if I could have actually moved, I would have fallen over when it started!

Some random guy came up to Janet yesterday and offered her some flowers. He followed us around for ages trying to get her to take them. The city is FULL of street sellers. There was even a cafe where they had put some tables outside, and there were five men walking around, trying to get people to eat there.


Bye!!!

p.s. This blog post took me over two hours to write
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