Rome, Italy

For the most part, these are just miscellaneous pictures of interesting buildings. Notice that there are palm trees. I was not expecting palm trees there. 

The picture below is the Monumento Nazionale a Vittorio Emanuele II.  It honors the "first king of a unified Italy" (wikipedia.com).  

Rome, Italy - Trevi Fountain

The fountain is overwhelming. I knew it was large, but actually being there strikes you with awe. I can't figure out why the picture below is always sideways on my computer, but I can't flip it on here, so just turn your head to the side.

You throw one coin over your should into the fountain to return to Rome...a second coin grants you a wish!

Rome, Italy - Spanish Steps

Views from the Spanish Steps. Below is the shopping district with the expensive, totally out of my price range stores.

I'm a big fan of the panoramic pictures...
This is Trajan's Column - carved in a spiral around the whole column are the emperor's victories. I know I learned about it in art history, but I had to look up exactly what it was about before I posted the pictures.

Rome, Italy

Pictures from the first walk around the city. I loved that you walk among all that history and architecture - and it's all been preserved (more or less). Below are a couple pictures from the street of the four fountains.  The bottom picture is an obelisk at the top of the Spanish Steps.

Rome, Italy

Lame, I know...but I was taking pictures of signs to show where we start at a new place. We had to do a bit of searching to find an available hostel. Shortly after finding a place to stay, we made friends with 3 girls (2 were from Canada and the other from Florida - they also had just met).  So we spent the majority of our time together. It was kind of funny that we grouped up the way we did. 
These pictures are of the little circle that we passed through a lot. It was our gateway to the interesting areas of Rome - the sights, restaurants, and shops. Every street is cobble stone. I still can't figure out how women wore high heels without spraining their ankles daily.

halloween

Okay, so it's not part of Europe, but my mom wants to see how our costumes turned out. We are She-ra and He-man.

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