Roman Forum: Circus Maximus, Paletine Hill, and Me and Leah Hanging out on Roman Ruins

So, the Roman Forum was one of the coolest places that we visited in Rome because this was where all the hubub went down back in the day. Paletine Hill has lots of ruins, as you can see from the picture. The picture that looks like just a grassy hill with trees and a road down the middle of it is Circus Maximus. This is where things such as the big chariot races took place. Finally, Leah and I decided to make ourselves comfortable on irreplacible pieces of history. (Wowed by my "knowledge" of the Roman Forum? Yeah, me neither. We didn't want to pay for a tour guide, so we offered to take a picture for a group of students and their tour guide. We decided that to repay us for kindly taking their picture they would have to let us tag along and listen to their guide. We couldn't be too obvious, so we hung back a little bit at first and missed some of what the guide was saying. Then we just decided, WHO ARE WE KIDDING? They know we're mooching off of them, so let's just be shameless about it. Well, by the time we decided this, the tour was over. Waah-Waaah [said in Debbie Downer voice] ).