December 03, 2009

Travelogue Rome: Day 1

We headed out on November 19th with high hopes for a great adventure and sad hearts at leaving our little boys behind. After 17 hours of flying we landed in Rome. Since we were exhausted- we found our hotel room and crashed for about three hours. That felt soooo good. We got up and headed out for a night tour of Rome.
We found a delicious pizza place and ate our fill. Then we took off to see the sights. The above picture is in front of the Colosseum.

The Trevi Fountain

Posing with Pinocchio
Piazza Navona-Fountain of the Rivers by Bernini. It was built in the early 1650's and was so expensive the bread tax was raised to cover the cost of it. It represents the four major known rivers at the time.
A blurry picture of Piazza Navona- the piazza is in an oval shape and they used to hold chariot races here. Sometimes they would even flood it and have naval battles. The cup Brig is holding in his hand held some of Italy's amazing Gelato. We enjoyed several helpings every day. Its the best ice cream in the world!

1 comment:

Mark and Jaleah Tuttle said...

did you bring some gellato home for me??!!! Place looks amazing!! Those are some stinking lucky kids to have traveled all they have!!! I love you guys!!