After the Coliseum, our group continued on to see some of the sites of Rome.
We saw a lot of Smart cars all over Italy. So cute. So energy efficient.
A bunch of the kids from the trip enjoying our daily gelato stop. I called it the miracle of the gelato. Who can't be happy with gelato?
The Pantheon. Also huge. And old.
There's a hole in the ceiling of the Pantheon which means that when it rains, it rains inside. But it also lets light in. There are slats in the floor to allow for drainage.
Our guide told us that when there's a downpour, if they shut the doors and the open grating above the doors, that the rain stops falling in due to the upsurge of heat from the building. I love stuff like that.
Our guide told us that when there's a downpour, if they shut the doors and the open grating above the doors, that the rain stops falling in due to the upsurge of heat from the building. I love stuff like that.
A very detailed column near the Pantheon.
Due to the heavy traffic congestion in Rome, many people ride Vespas and motorcycles.
The Trevi Fountain.
A side view of the Trevi Fountain.
Ashley and my mom throwing three coins in the fountain, which is featured in Fellini's La Dolce Vita.
If you wish to return to Rome, you should come here on the last day of your visit, take a drink out of the rim of the fountain with your left hand, then turn and throw into the water, over your left shoulder, a halfpenny. Or at least so they say.
We weren't too clear on what the other two coins were for.
If you wish to return to Rome, you should come here on the last day of your visit, take a drink out of the rim of the fountain with your left hand, then turn and throw into the water, over your left shoulder, a halfpenny. Or at least so they say.
We weren't too clear on what the other two coins were for.
Marc, Mary and Ashley standing on the Spanish Steps. Another location, of which I do not know the historical significance.
Mary, posing for a 'natural' photo, with Ashley in a great little restaurant that we stopped at for lunch.
