Rome - Day 4

In our last blog post, I stupidly made a bold statement that day 4 was going to be our more low key day... as it turns out, we walked 30,592 steps (11.10 miles). I *think* this is the most walking we've done in one day during the entire trip... so much for taking it easy.

Basically, we walked so much because we tried to hit several of the miscellaneous items that we hadn't seen yet. Since the Piazza de Venezia was closed last time we were there, we went to climb it and take pictures:

From Rome - Day 4

This flame burns as long as Rome is in existence:

From Rome - Day 4

A cool shot of the Piazza from the top:

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Then, since Vanessa requested it, we HAD to stop by our favorite gelato place again to take some pics ;)... (it doesn't hurt that it's basically around the block from the Piazza de Venezia):

From Rome - Day 4

The best part was that the woman behind the counter has let us try nearly every flavor in there... without us even asking!

From Rome - Day 4

So far, we've tried dark chocolate, stracciatella (chocolate chip... my favorite), and the one below... this one is similar to stracciatella but it also had almonds in it as well:

From Rome - Day 4

It was about the time for us to pick up our tickets for the papal audience, so we went back to the Trevi Fountain (for the third time) to pick them up:

From Rome - Day 4

While we were wandering around after that, we stumbled across the Pantheon. We had planned on leaving the Pantheon for day 5 because we've discovered that there are clothing requirements to get into the churches in Italy and the Pantheon is currently a church. Since we weren't planning on visiting any churches this day, we both wore shorts (you can't be showing your shoulders or your knees), but we decided to pop in and check to see what the dress code was so that we could be prepared... as it turns out, there's no dress code and visiting the Pantheon is 100% FREE.... our type of tourist attraction! So we knocked that off our list:

From Rome - Day 4

It was pretty amazing in there:

From Rome - Day 4

From Rome - Day 4

Our last stop (we practically crawled through it because our feet hurt so much), was the Capitolini Museum... a very impressive collection of sculptures and such. I thought this was cool... these are bits and pieces of a statue of Constantine. It was once a solid statue, but now it's all busted, but the sizes of the individual parts are crazy big and it's hard to imagine how big the statue once was:

From Rome - Day 4

And this one is the story of how Rome was founded... Romulus and Remus with their new found wolf mother. This one is 2,500 YEARS OLD... I can't even wrap my head around that:

From Rome - Day 4

And the best part was that the museum had an amazing view of the Forum at night and there were no people in it:

From Rome - Day 4

So, 11 miles later, that's it for day 4... I'll be posting day 5 shortly :)

Lauren & JC