The last weekend in March, we flew to Italy for a chance to meet up with a friend in Rome for a few days! Sarah's former co-teacher Caroline was going to Italy for her spring break, and we decided to take a trip to visit her and see the sights in Rome. We saw quite a few sights, in fact. According to the pedometers on our phones, we walked close to 40 miles in 3.5 days there.
We had an absolutely wonderful time. The weather was perfect, the crowds were small, and the sights were...OLD. Sarah spent a lot of time reminiscing about Latin class, ancient Roman politics, and the marvel that is plumbing (which was created in Ancient Rome, and which she talked about at length each time they passed a public drinking fountain), and Joe discovered that in Italy you can order pasta that comes to you served, steaming hot, out of the inside of a cheese wheel. It was a grand time! We even lucked into seeing the Pope's weekly address (on accident), although it was given in Italian so there's not a lot of it we understood. Something about bring light into darkness and being Christ's light in the world ;-).
Here are a few photos, and here's the link to the
whole album (fair warning, there are like 400 pictures!).
Enjoy!
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| Flying over the Alps! |
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| Hanging out in the gardens at Villa Borghese |
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| Inside St. Peter's Basilica |
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| Inside St. Peter's Basilica |
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At St. Peter's Square, where we saw the Pope give a greeting. He was high up in the residence area (not this building), so
getting a good picture didn't really happen. |
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| One of the original Ancient entrances to the city, on the Via Appia! |
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| Inside the Roman Forum |
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| Visiting the Pyramid of Cestius, an Egyptian pyramid built in Rome. |
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| View of a government building from the Ponte Matteotti bridge on the River Tiber. |
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| One of the aforementioned public drinking fountains. |
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| Obligatory Colosseum photo! |
