Roman Holiday

Welcome to Rome – the city of the small cars, impressive buildings, and church cluttered piazzas(the pictures are just a few examples of each one of those). The weather is perfect. It is sunny and warm, but not too hot, with a token thunder storm late in the afternoon. Many kilometers have been tracked by Vans, tennies, and Crocs, large and small alike. We have marched, or sometimes plodded, from the Colosseum to the Pantheon to the Vatican, etc. Each has been impressive and overwhelming in its own right. Sometimes the impressiveness comes from monumental size or sometimes from the age or sometimes from the artist/sculptor who created it who you’ve read about every year in school or sometimes simply from its beauty. If you came to Rome just to see the churches, you would be busy for weeks. Those, along with all the other must-sees, have given us a pile as high as the Vatican dome to sort through and figure out which ones to put on a realistic list of how many we can see in the few days that we have. So far we’ve managed three or four a day with the rewarding gelato waiting for us to energize us for the walk home. (Sorry again about the sideways picture - computer wasn't working for me again!)