Il Roma ha Vinto!

Ciao from Rome. Grace and I are finishing day three in Rome and enjoying ourselves thoroughly, though we are tiring of the crowded city and definitely ready to leave on the train to Tuscany tomorrow.

It has rained pretty much nonstop since we arrived. We figure thats the meteorological gods' tradeoff for giving us such good weather at the wedding. Here are a few pics.


We have been fascinated by these little dinky cars. They sound like they have lawnmower engines and don't look the least bit safe in the crazy Rome traffic, but lots of people are driving them. Who needs four cylinders when you can get by on three?!


Here is our gelato dessert the first night after dinner. Grace ate too much of the main course and didn't have any room left so I had to eat the whole thing!
Grace: Actually the food is so rich here that after eating soup and salad for ages...my stomach couldn't handle it too fast. I'm looking forward to some risotto tonight!




Us at the Colisseum. It is pretty impressive without any context, but after you get it in your head that they built the thing during bible times it is really incredible.
Grace: Also it was raining nonstop but we had a good time...see the photo below. I'm not too crazy about how I look but qw were having a bit of fun. Colisseum was pretty impressive what I got out of the tour was that the romans were kind of cruel. During the 100 day gladiator games - they killed up to 5,000 wild animals because they thought it was funny! Like they'd put a crocodile and giraffe together to fight to the death because they found that humorous. Hmmph! Good thing modern Romans put an end to that!


This is Grace at the Palatino doing her best Charlie Chaplin...



Ciao, Grace here, reporting from the Trevi Fountain. This is the place where you are suppossed to throw in a euro or penny or something and you are guaranteed that someday you will return to Rome. Well, we didn't throw anything into the fountain! Rome is more crowded than anyplace we've ever been too. Even Georgetown! Too many people. Dan had paprika pringles as a snack here while we were being accosted by many Indian rose pushers. One actually even handed me one as a "present" but then came chasing after us wanting a few somethings for the rose! Dan handed it back to him and said, Go away!" Anyways, afterwards, we hit a couple of bars and were on our way!