Rome

Trevi Fountain - this is the end of the second day in Rome (as far as MY pictures go anyway). Note also, we did see the Sistine Chapel, but you aren't allowed to photograph or videotape it.

We had a lovely dinner with our friends and ate gelato.  We also went to an Irish pub (in Rome, mind you) and talked to some people from the Netherlands and Germany.

Day 3. I left my camera at the hostel by mistake and Jill's was dead.  We took a couple pictures with a disposable, but I don't have copies yet. On day 3, we walked around the Colosseum and the Roman Forum. The Roman Forum wasn't much to look at, but we stumbled upon a free guided tour and learned some interesting things.  For example, the saying "all roads lead to Rome" came about because in the center of the forum was a list of the distances of other cities to Rome.  Also, the guy who traded the Pantheon to the church...his memorial, a free standing column, still stands in the forum.

The pictures below are of the friends we made the last night.  They knew the girls we hung out with from the hostel.  The picture below goes along with the conversation about how few American cars there were in Europe and how you'd never see a pickup truck there.  I looked around and pointed out the ford 4-door pickup that was 50ft away....so there had to be a picture with it.
Diane and me
Below: our sleeping beauties. Diane fell asleep at the Roman forum and also at the Irish Pub the night before. Jill falls asleep any time she's in a moving vehicle.
Below: this guy was a Scott (former SPRO manager) look-alike