Since there's so much to do in Rome and so little time, JC and I decided that we wanted to see 2 things: the Vatican and the Colosseum... and the rest would just be gravy. We saw part of the Vatican the day before so we decided to see the Colosseum (and the surrounding area) yesterday. I just have to say... it was really freakin' awesome. Seeing so much history is just mind blowing.
We ended up taking a tour of the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill so that we could have a better idea of everything going on there and it was definitely worth it... in fact, our tour guide for Palatine Hill was so good that we're thinking of calling him up for another tour elsewhere. But back to pictures... here are some cool shots of the Colosseum:
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| From Rome - Day 3 |
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| From Rome - Day 3 |
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| From Rome - Day 3 |
By the way, some of you may have seen on the news that the faked setting the Colosseum on fire this past weekend... yes we were in Rome when they did it, but no, we didn't see it :(. We didn't even know it was going on at the time, but here's a link all about it:
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/bizarre&id=7677687
Next up was Palatine Hill and the Roman Forum... I have tons of pictures that will hit facebook later, but here's a cool shot of the overview:
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| From Rome - Day 3 |
I also really liked this shot when I saw it in camera, so I figured I'd include it. The clouds here are amazing and I've been loving taking pictures of them:
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| From Rome - Day 3 |
Then, of all things, we ran into our friends Julian and Dawn while we were roaming around the Forum. We knew they were in Rome, but we hadn't made plans yet and we didn't stage this at all.... seriously, how do you run into someone in a city like Rome, when you're half way across the country, and there are a bazillion attractions to see?? It was pretty amazing.... so we ended up deciding to meet for dinner that night:
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| From Rome - Day 3 |
We ended up having a great time and spent the evening exploring Rome by night... we ended up back at the Trevi Fountain for some awesome night shots:
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| From Rome - Day 3 |
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| From Rome - Day 3 |
So that was Day 3... I'm writing this the morning of Day 4 and we're taking it a bit easier right now because we've been doing so much and we have some early days coming up. We're about to head out the door though, so we'll see what cool stuff we find today :)
Lauren & JC
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