June 27
Mom and Dad,
We are having a great time but are ready to be home. The last time I wrote, we were still in Florence. After updating you, we went to the Academia Gallery where Michelangelo’s David is on display. I am going to prove my ignorance to all things art history when I type this, but I had no idea that David, was meant to be the David and Goliath David. Haha. I mean, his sling is not the first thing that catches your eye! He truly is amazing. In the same gallery are several unfinished statues by Michelangelo which are carved into huge slabs of marble. This makes David even more amazing because you can see what he used to be. It is fascinating that this giant, perfect form was cut out of a single piece of rock. After getting our fill of ancient art, we decided to continue our search for tripe (we had yet to find any). I almost wish we hadn’t found it, but we did, at a little cafe who specialized in this fine, Florentine dish. We walked in, and the lady behind the counter knew instantly what we wanted. She took great care in making me the best lamperdotto sandwich (that’s the Italian name for the specific tripe I was eating) she had ever created. She pulled out about a foot of greasy, spirally, slimy, reddish-brown meat from this crock-pot-like thing, and placed it onto a bun. Then she dipped the bun into the greasy liquid and spread something that looked like pesto on the meat, wrapped it up, and stood staring at me in anticipation of my reaction after the first bite. I bit, smiled, she stared, I chewed, I smiled, she stared, I swallowed, I smiled, she nodded and walked away. Haha. I gave Cody a bite; he hated it. I didn’t particularly like it, but I was hungry and the lady was hovering. Afterwards, my stomach must have felt a bit cannibalistic, because it began to reject its fellow internal organ, but it took what it could get, and I was good. Well, enough about tripe and onto The Eternal City, Rome. The next morning, we woke up, bought some fresh cherries, Cody’s FAVE, at a little fruit stand and jumped on a train to……oh wait, I forgot, we made a little pit stop. We decided to take the one hour train ride to Pisa to see the Leaning Tower. We jumped off of the train, dropped our bags at the train station at the baggage deposit, and took a bus to the tower. It REALLY is leaning, and it is REALLY large. We read all about the tower and its construction and took about a thousand of the typical holding-the-tower- up pictures, had pizza, and then went back to the train station and continued our journey to…….The Eternal City, Rome. The train ride took four hours. Rome was OVERWHELLMING at first. We hadn’t been to a BIG city in a while, and while Rome is very much a tourist destination, it is also a metropolis. It was a bit hard to get oriented, but we found our hotel without any trouble. We are in a tiny room without air conditioning, and it is HOT here. We do have a fan which is more than I could say for the last place we stayed. We were exhausted when we arrived here, and we spent the first night just doing some basic maintenance, like laundry, baths, and sleep. The next morning, which was yesterday, we were ready to see the sites. Our hotel is within walking distance of the Coliseum, so we headed that direction. It was incredible! We walked up to it, and it looked like a postcard! It is amazing that the people here live, play, and work around such an incredible piece of history. We walked through it, and bypassed the GIANT line because we bought a Roma Pass, which allows us free and reduced entrance into places along with free public transport. Anyway, we walked all around the Coliseum, and read everything we could about its history. It truly is amazing that the Romans constructed that thing, and that any of it still stands. After being amazed by the Coliseum, we took a walk through the ruins of the Roman Forum, which was the hub of the city of Rome over 1,000 years ago. Many of the columns and parts of temples are still visible. It was amazing to think, “Julius Caesar walked where I am walking!!” Speaking of Caesar, we saw the place he was cremated. We also walked up Palentine Hill, which according to legend is where Rome got its start. All of that wonderful site seeing took about four hours. We were hot, hungry and tired, so we stopped by a local supermarket and bought some chicken hot dogs and bread and had a cheap feast. Haha. Don’t laugh, we are trying to make our poor, tired US dollars last. After lunch and a nap, we headed out again, recharged. We made it to the Triton Fountain, which is a fountain with Triton in the center, Haha, and to The Trevi Fountain, which is MASSIVE!! Legend says that throwing a coin into the Trevi fountain ensures your return to Rome, love in the Eternal City, and something about a wedding…..anyway we did the whole coin thing and chilled by the fountain. Then we jumped on the subway and went to see the Spanish Steps. These are HUGE steps leading up to a cathedral. They are also MASSIVE, and the view from the top was pretty cool. There are a TON of scam artists and people peddling crap all around this area. They were REALLY annoying. The worst of them were the men who would come up and INSIST that you take a rose from them and then demand that the man you are with pay for it. Don’t worry though; my momma didn’t raise no fool! I politely said, "No, thank you,"….well at least I was polite the first time. When the men would not get out of my personal space, I was a little less polite. Cody found this amusing, because these people have been annoying him the entire trip. After our night venture, we went back to the hotel, watched some MTV in Italian, and slept on our tiny double bed. Haha. We are too big to sleep on such a small bed, but we manage. Today we started our day at the Pantheon. It was once a Pagan temple, and is the best preserved, ancient building in Rome. It is amazing that such a huge, geometrically perfect building was build sans modern technology. Part of the reason it survived, was because it was transformed into a Christian Church by some Pope way back when, and serves that same purpose now. After oooooing and awwwwing over the Pantheon, we made our way to the Catacombs of San Calisto. Mom, I have heard you talk about these things my entire life! They REALLY are AMAZING! Over half-a-million Christians were buried in the specific ones we saw, including six Popes, and many martyrs. Many of these people were persecuted for proclaiming to be Christian. It was an awesome place with truly interesting history. We were both very glad we went. We had to take a bus and it was hot sweaty and packed, but we were relieved to find that the catacombs were around fifteen degrees Celsius. I have no idea what that is in Fahrenheit, but it was chilly. We are now officially beat, and I have been on this computer entirely too long. We go to Vatican City tomorrow! WOW! We keep saying, “Are we REALLY in Rome?” It is surreal! We love and miss you MUCHO! Ciao!!!!!
June 29
Mom and Dad,
I am embarrassed to look back at the updates I have already written because of how terrible the spelling, grammar and typos are! I hope you can still understand what I am writing. I left some things out of my last update, partly because I started typing, hit a button on this weird keyboard, and then it all vanished. A few days ago we went to a square called Piaza Navona, which had beautiful fountains, cafes, and artists. I really liked one of the paintings, but it was $200 Euros. Haha! A short walk from there was a little market, where we stopped and looked around; these fresh produce markets are in every city we have visited. I also forgot to tell you that Rafael is buried in the Pantheon, and that we saw the aqueducts that provided ancient Rome its plentiful water supply. The aqueducts were attacked by the Barbarians, and this ultimately lead to the decline of the Roman Empire. Okay, enough about the sites, let’s talk about food. We have eaten at the same pizza place, across from our hotel every night we have been here, and will probably do the same tonight. It is the best pizza we have had here, and the people are really nice, but we are both SO tired of pizza. Yes, even Cody would rather have something else. WE NEED PROTEIN! Cheese pizza is the most affordable fare around here, that and gelato. We are officially tired of that too :) Speaking of tired, we are all together worn out. We have done our best to conquer Rome in four days, and tomorrow it is on to Athens. Yes, we will stay away from the square, and will do our best not to join in on any riots. I will hold Cody back if he gets the inclination to through rocks at the police officers. I know that it is much hotter where you are than it is here, but Cody and I both almost had heat strokes here in Rome. It is around 95 degrees at the highest, but we are outside walking all day. When visiting Rome, it is inevitable that you will have to take a long walk at one point or another because the public transportation is not great. The reason for this is that when they began to dig the tunnels for the metro they kept running into ancient ruins of one thing or another haha, so there are only two metro lines running along one side of the city. On top of the walking, very few places have air conditioning. Even the Vatican was HOT! Our hotel definitely doesn’t have it, so we have nowhere to get out of the heat. Luckily, nights here are cool, so we get some relief, but yesterday I felt sick and dehydrated, and today wasn’t much better. Cody started feeling the same way today. We fought through it though :) I’ll tell you all about it after I tell you about our amazing day at the Vatican. After eating at our favorite pizza place, and watching True Blood on our iPhones (we needed some TV in English), we went to sleep. We woke up yesterday morning and headed to Vatican City, which is its own country! I didn’t know that. They have their own postal service and everything. It is rumored to be much more reliable than the Italian mail, so we mailed our postcards from there. We took the metro to the closest stop and walked from there. Vatican City is surrounded on all sides by giant walls. The longest line of people I have seen since we have been here was waiting to get in. We were lucky because I had booked the tickets in advance online, so we were able to skip the line. That saved us from waiting, but did not save us from the throngs of people hoping to catch a glance of the Pope, whose picture, the size of three giant billboards is hanging in the St. Peter’s square. Anyway, it was crowded! After passing through security and checking our bags, we were herded through the Vatican museum like cattle. The Louvre is rivaled only by this place in the quantity and quality of art it houses. It is HUGE, and everywhere you look there is some painting, sculpture, or building created by Michelangelo. We were literally touching strangers the entire way through this museum, and you would not believe how bad some people over here smell. I know that sounds horrible and mean, but I’m telling you it literally makes your eyes water. Haha…Okay, sorry, but it made the Vatican Museum much less enjoyable. Don’t worry though we found a stink free zone in the Sistine Chapel to take it all in. This place surpassed our expectations. We downloaded an audio guide and sat for about thirty minutes, while people pressed in against us, and learned all about it. It is UNVELIEVABLE. It took Michelangelo four years to paint that ceiling, and the ENTIRE chapel is painted! The fresco at the front of the chapel behind the altar, of The Last Judgment was incredible, so was the story. It felt like Michelangelo was there with us giving us his take on creation, faith, and heaven. After we had craned our necks until we both had cricks (does that word exist, or is it just one of those country things?), we left the chapel, sent our postcards, and got the heck out of the museum. I was moving so fast away from all of the people that I fell on one of the many marble staircases. Haha! Cody got a kick out of that but assured me that not many people saw. :) Don’t worry, it didn’t hurt too badly. We walked around the huge wall and entered again into St. Peter’s Square. It is pretty impressive. We also had an audio guide of this, we saw the Pope’s apartment, and strained our eyes to see if we could see him hanging out. We couldn’t. We also saw the chimney of the Sistine Chapel where they burn the ballots that have been cast when a new Pope is elected. The courtyard was actually where Christians were persecuted, and murdered for sport during intermission of chariot races. Thousands of people died there, including Peter. He is buried in St. Peter’s Basilica. The huge alter at the front of the Cathedral marks his burial spot. St. Peter’s Basilica is GIGANTIC! It can hold 60,000 people, and I think there might have been that many there yesterday :) It is very impressive, and lots of indulgences must have been sold to build and decorate that thing. Seven foot, blue, Greek letters are painted all around the top of the church, and are Jesus' words to Peter in the bible. Several Popes are buried in the Basilica as well. It is truly AMAZING. It was first built, in Peter’s honor, around 300 AD when Constantine legalized Christianity. Did you know Peter is considered the first Pope? I didn’t. Anyway, the place is COOL! We were pretty exhausted after fighting the crowds and exploring the Vatican for four or five hours, so we headed back to the hotel to rest. It was hot, I almost died of a heat stroke, Cody went and got pizza. Then we slept. We dedicated today to see all of the stuff we hadn’t seen :) First thing this morning, we took the metro to Circus Maximus, which is nothing more than a big gravel pit, where chariot races used to take place. Then we headed to the pyramid. That’s right, Rome has one. I think they were trying to prove that they were just as sophisticated as the Egyptians. That was pretty cool, but we had one more thing on our list. We read that the neighborhood of Trastevere was neat to walk through. That may be true, but it is NOT easy to get to. We walked forever, found it, had pizza, and then walked forever home. We took a nap, until the sun was shining directly into our room, then we went and did laundry, and now here we are. We are finished with Rome, and ready to move on :) It has been the most amazing place we have been, in my opinion, I won’t speak for Cody, but I’m pretty sure he would agree. We are ready for the beach, but before that, we have to wake up at 4:30 in the morning, take a taxi to the airport, and fly to Athens. We will see lots more amazingly old and awesome stuff, and then we can rest on the black sand beaches of Santorini. Pray that we hold up! It is a struggle to keep our eyes open and our feet moving at this point, not that we would dare complain. This truly has been the trip of a lifetime!!! We have learned and experienced SO much. Thank you guys for taking such good care of our sweet doggies. Don’t you dare mow our lawn. It will be fine! I can’t wait to talk to you! I hope everything is going great there. Have you heard anything about then house? We love you! I will write from Athens!
Love,
Emily and Cody
P.S. Did you know Roma is an anagram for Amor! Pretty Cool!
Mom and Dad,
We are having a great time but are ready to be home. The last time I wrote, we were still in Florence. After updating you, we went to the Academia Gallery where Michelangelo’s David is on display. I am going to prove my ignorance to all things art history when I type this, but I had no idea that David, was meant to be the David and Goliath David. Haha. I mean, his sling is not the first thing that catches your eye! He truly is amazing. In the same gallery are several unfinished statues by Michelangelo which are carved into huge slabs of marble. This makes David even more amazing because you can see what he used to be. It is fascinating that this giant, perfect form was cut out of a single piece of rock. After getting our fill of ancient art, we decided to continue our search for tripe (we had yet to find any). I almost wish we hadn’t found it, but we did, at a little cafe who specialized in this fine, Florentine dish. We walked in, and the lady behind the counter knew instantly what we wanted. She took great care in making me the best lamperdotto sandwich (that’s the Italian name for the specific tripe I was eating) she had ever created. She pulled out about a foot of greasy, spirally, slimy, reddish-brown meat from this crock-pot-like thing, and placed it onto a bun. Then she dipped the bun into the greasy liquid and spread something that looked like pesto on the meat, wrapped it up, and stood staring at me in anticipation of my reaction after the first bite. I bit, smiled, she stared, I chewed, I smiled, she stared, I swallowed, I smiled, she nodded and walked away. Haha. I gave Cody a bite; he hated it. I didn’t particularly like it, but I was hungry and the lady was hovering. Afterwards, my stomach must have felt a bit cannibalistic, because it began to reject its fellow internal organ, but it took what it could get, and I was good. Well, enough about tripe and onto The Eternal City, Rome. The next morning, we woke up, bought some fresh cherries, Cody’s FAVE, at a little fruit stand and jumped on a train to……oh wait, I forgot, we made a little pit stop. We decided to take the one hour train ride to Pisa to see the Leaning Tower. We jumped off of the train, dropped our bags at the train station at the baggage deposit, and took a bus to the tower. It REALLY is leaning, and it is REALLY large. We read all about the tower and its construction and took about a thousand of the typical holding-the-tower- up pictures, had pizza, and then went back to the train station and continued our journey to…….The Eternal City, Rome. The train ride took four hours. Rome was OVERWHELLMING at first. We hadn’t been to a BIG city in a while, and while Rome is very much a tourist destination, it is also a metropolis. It was a bit hard to get oriented, but we found our hotel without any trouble. We are in a tiny room without air conditioning, and it is HOT here. We do have a fan which is more than I could say for the last place we stayed. We were exhausted when we arrived here, and we spent the first night just doing some basic maintenance, like laundry, baths, and sleep. The next morning, which was yesterday, we were ready to see the sites. Our hotel is within walking distance of the Coliseum, so we headed that direction. It was incredible! We walked up to it, and it looked like a postcard! It is amazing that the people here live, play, and work around such an incredible piece of history. We walked through it, and bypassed the GIANT line because we bought a Roma Pass, which allows us free and reduced entrance into places along with free public transport. Anyway, we walked all around the Coliseum, and read everything we could about its history. It truly is amazing that the Romans constructed that thing, and that any of it still stands. After being amazed by the Coliseum, we took a walk through the ruins of the Roman Forum, which was the hub of the city of Rome over 1,000 years ago. Many of the columns and parts of temples are still visible. It was amazing to think, “Julius Caesar walked where I am walking!!” Speaking of Caesar, we saw the place he was cremated. We also walked up Palentine Hill, which according to legend is where Rome got its start. All of that wonderful site seeing took about four hours. We were hot, hungry and tired, so we stopped by a local supermarket and bought some chicken hot dogs and bread and had a cheap feast. Haha. Don’t laugh, we are trying to make our poor, tired US dollars last. After lunch and a nap, we headed out again, recharged. We made it to the Triton Fountain, which is a fountain with Triton in the center, Haha, and to The Trevi Fountain, which is MASSIVE!! Legend says that throwing a coin into the Trevi fountain ensures your return to Rome, love in the Eternal City, and something about a wedding…..anyway we did the whole coin thing and chilled by the fountain. Then we jumped on the subway and went to see the Spanish Steps. These are HUGE steps leading up to a cathedral. They are also MASSIVE, and the view from the top was pretty cool. There are a TON of scam artists and people peddling crap all around this area. They were REALLY annoying. The worst of them were the men who would come up and INSIST that you take a rose from them and then demand that the man you are with pay for it. Don’t worry though; my momma didn’t raise no fool! I politely said, "No, thank you,"….well at least I was polite the first time. When the men would not get out of my personal space, I was a little less polite. Cody found this amusing, because these people have been annoying him the entire trip. After our night venture, we went back to the hotel, watched some MTV in Italian, and slept on our tiny double bed. Haha. We are too big to sleep on such a small bed, but we manage. Today we started our day at the Pantheon. It was once a Pagan temple, and is the best preserved, ancient building in Rome. It is amazing that such a huge, geometrically perfect building was build sans modern technology. Part of the reason it survived, was because it was transformed into a Christian Church by some Pope way back when, and serves that same purpose now. After oooooing and awwwwing over the Pantheon, we made our way to the Catacombs of San Calisto. Mom, I have heard you talk about these things my entire life! They REALLY are AMAZING! Over half-a-million Christians were buried in the specific ones we saw, including six Popes, and many martyrs. Many of these people were persecuted for proclaiming to be Christian. It was an awesome place with truly interesting history. We were both very glad we went. We had to take a bus and it was hot sweaty and packed, but we were relieved to find that the catacombs were around fifteen degrees Celsius. I have no idea what that is in Fahrenheit, but it was chilly. We are now officially beat, and I have been on this computer entirely too long. We go to Vatican City tomorrow! WOW! We keep saying, “Are we REALLY in Rome?” It is surreal! We love and miss you MUCHO! Ciao!!!!!
June 29
Mom and Dad,
I am embarrassed to look back at the updates I have already written because of how terrible the spelling, grammar and typos are! I hope you can still understand what I am writing. I left some things out of my last update, partly because I started typing, hit a button on this weird keyboard, and then it all vanished. A few days ago we went to a square called Piaza Navona, which had beautiful fountains, cafes, and artists. I really liked one of the paintings, but it was $200 Euros. Haha! A short walk from there was a little market, where we stopped and looked around; these fresh produce markets are in every city we have visited. I also forgot to tell you that Rafael is buried in the Pantheon, and that we saw the aqueducts that provided ancient Rome its plentiful water supply. The aqueducts were attacked by the Barbarians, and this ultimately lead to the decline of the Roman Empire. Okay, enough about the sites, let’s talk about food. We have eaten at the same pizza place, across from our hotel every night we have been here, and will probably do the same tonight. It is the best pizza we have had here, and the people are really nice, but we are both SO tired of pizza. Yes, even Cody would rather have something else. WE NEED PROTEIN! Cheese pizza is the most affordable fare around here, that and gelato. We are officially tired of that too :) Speaking of tired, we are all together worn out. We have done our best to conquer Rome in four days, and tomorrow it is on to Athens. Yes, we will stay away from the square, and will do our best not to join in on any riots. I will hold Cody back if he gets the inclination to through rocks at the police officers. I know that it is much hotter where you are than it is here, but Cody and I both almost had heat strokes here in Rome. It is around 95 degrees at the highest, but we are outside walking all day. When visiting Rome, it is inevitable that you will have to take a long walk at one point or another because the public transportation is not great. The reason for this is that when they began to dig the tunnels for the metro they kept running into ancient ruins of one thing or another haha, so there are only two metro lines running along one side of the city. On top of the walking, very few places have air conditioning. Even the Vatican was HOT! Our hotel definitely doesn’t have it, so we have nowhere to get out of the heat. Luckily, nights here are cool, so we get some relief, but yesterday I felt sick and dehydrated, and today wasn’t much better. Cody started feeling the same way today. We fought through it though :) I’ll tell you all about it after I tell you about our amazing day at the Vatican. After eating at our favorite pizza place, and watching True Blood on our iPhones (we needed some TV in English), we went to sleep. We woke up yesterday morning and headed to Vatican City, which is its own country! I didn’t know that. They have their own postal service and everything. It is rumored to be much more reliable than the Italian mail, so we mailed our postcards from there. We took the metro to the closest stop and walked from there. Vatican City is surrounded on all sides by giant walls. The longest line of people I have seen since we have been here was waiting to get in. We were lucky because I had booked the tickets in advance online, so we were able to skip the line. That saved us from waiting, but did not save us from the throngs of people hoping to catch a glance of the Pope, whose picture, the size of three giant billboards is hanging in the St. Peter’s square. Anyway, it was crowded! After passing through security and checking our bags, we were herded through the Vatican museum like cattle. The Louvre is rivaled only by this place in the quantity and quality of art it houses. It is HUGE, and everywhere you look there is some painting, sculpture, or building created by Michelangelo. We were literally touching strangers the entire way through this museum, and you would not believe how bad some people over here smell. I know that sounds horrible and mean, but I’m telling you it literally makes your eyes water. Haha…Okay, sorry, but it made the Vatican Museum much less enjoyable. Don’t worry though we found a stink free zone in the Sistine Chapel to take it all in. This place surpassed our expectations. We downloaded an audio guide and sat for about thirty minutes, while people pressed in against us, and learned all about it. It is UNVELIEVABLE. It took Michelangelo four years to paint that ceiling, and the ENTIRE chapel is painted! The fresco at the front of the chapel behind the altar, of The Last Judgment was incredible, so was the story. It felt like Michelangelo was there with us giving us his take on creation, faith, and heaven. After we had craned our necks until we both had cricks (does that word exist, or is it just one of those country things?), we left the chapel, sent our postcards, and got the heck out of the museum. I was moving so fast away from all of the people that I fell on one of the many marble staircases. Haha! Cody got a kick out of that but assured me that not many people saw. :) Don’t worry, it didn’t hurt too badly. We walked around the huge wall and entered again into St. Peter’s Square. It is pretty impressive. We also had an audio guide of this, we saw the Pope’s apartment, and strained our eyes to see if we could see him hanging out. We couldn’t. We also saw the chimney of the Sistine Chapel where they burn the ballots that have been cast when a new Pope is elected. The courtyard was actually where Christians were persecuted, and murdered for sport during intermission of chariot races. Thousands of people died there, including Peter. He is buried in St. Peter’s Basilica. The huge alter at the front of the Cathedral marks his burial spot. St. Peter’s Basilica is GIGANTIC! It can hold 60,000 people, and I think there might have been that many there yesterday :) It is very impressive, and lots of indulgences must have been sold to build and decorate that thing. Seven foot, blue, Greek letters are painted all around the top of the church, and are Jesus' words to Peter in the bible. Several Popes are buried in the Basilica as well. It is truly AMAZING. It was first built, in Peter’s honor, around 300 AD when Constantine legalized Christianity. Did you know Peter is considered the first Pope? I didn’t. Anyway, the place is COOL! We were pretty exhausted after fighting the crowds and exploring the Vatican for four or five hours, so we headed back to the hotel to rest. It was hot, I almost died of a heat stroke, Cody went and got pizza. Then we slept. We dedicated today to see all of the stuff we hadn’t seen :) First thing this morning, we took the metro to Circus Maximus, which is nothing more than a big gravel pit, where chariot races used to take place. Then we headed to the pyramid. That’s right, Rome has one. I think they were trying to prove that they were just as sophisticated as the Egyptians. That was pretty cool, but we had one more thing on our list. We read that the neighborhood of Trastevere was neat to walk through. That may be true, but it is NOT easy to get to. We walked forever, found it, had pizza, and then walked forever home. We took a nap, until the sun was shining directly into our room, then we went and did laundry, and now here we are. We are finished with Rome, and ready to move on :) It has been the most amazing place we have been, in my opinion, I won’t speak for Cody, but I’m pretty sure he would agree. We are ready for the beach, but before that, we have to wake up at 4:30 in the morning, take a taxi to the airport, and fly to Athens. We will see lots more amazingly old and awesome stuff, and then we can rest on the black sand beaches of Santorini. Pray that we hold up! It is a struggle to keep our eyes open and our feet moving at this point, not that we would dare complain. This truly has been the trip of a lifetime!!! We have learned and experienced SO much. Thank you guys for taking such good care of our sweet doggies. Don’t you dare mow our lawn. It will be fine! I can’t wait to talk to you! I hope everything is going great there. Have you heard anything about then house? We love you! I will write from Athens!
Love,
Emily and Cody
P.S. Did you know Roma is an anagram for Amor! Pretty Cool!
Pisa
The Leaning Tower of Pisa
The Colosseum!
Inside the Colosseum, The floor used to be covered with wood and underneath were lions, gladiators, and victims waiting to be killed in the fights.
Arch of Constantine
Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum, Cody was hot. Notice his happy face ;)
The Roman Forum
Julius Caesar was cremated behind this wall.
On Palatine Hill
Trevi Fountain
Us Throwing Our Coins
The Spanish Stairs and one of the rose men.
View from the Spanish Stairs
Our yummy daily pizza and coke.
The Pantheon
The Dome Inside of the Pantheon
Alter of the Pantheon
Rafael's Tomb
Four Rivers Fountain, in the Piazza Navona
Neptune's Fountain
Huge Log of Lunch Meat
More Gelato!!
Ancient Aquaducts
Vatican Museum Courtyard
Vatican Museum
Vatican City Post
St. Peter's Square
St. Peter's Basilica
Pope Benedict XVI
Inside St. Peter's Basilica
Michelangelo's Pieta, inside St. Peter's Basilica
The Swiss Guard
Statue of St. Peter in front on the Basilica
The Sistine Chapel is the building with the triangle roof.
The Pope's Apartments
Circus Maximus
The Pyramid :)
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