Italy- April 4th

On this day, we trekked over to the Vatican City.

The Line for St. Peter's Basilica.  

We were there early.  

Uh-oh...Jordan's in trouble.  What to do with his knife!  Under protest, 

he slid it under a railing with hopes it would still be there when we got out.  

The top is statues of the 12 apostles, and Jesus in the middle.

The huge courtyard in front of St. Peter's is where the Pope addresses the crowds.

The mosaics of Bible scenes were quite awesome.

This statue of Mary with Jesus is now behind glass because some guy attacked it (1970's or '80's) and broke a finger off of one of them.  

This huge marble piece is over a doorway.  It wasn't really interesting until Jordan pointed out the skeleton holding up the opening.  

Click to enlarge picture.  

Painting...with dead preserved pope below!

Another dead pope!

OK...this is their "We've seen enough!" pose!

The shaft of light...walk this way...

It's the exit!

Standing IN the ray of light!  

We must be getting closer!

Jordan is glad to see his knife!

This was a constant!  Checking the map.  In fact, it was a popular thing to do, as on most street corners, you could find other people doing the same thing!

These 2 battled it out!  

Gelato!  

Yummy!

Italian pizza...yummy too!

Which one would I like?

Aw...nuts!  Don't know what these were, but they looked good!

In the Jewish Ghetto....a giant Menorah

Our last supper...at Nona Betta's

Fried Artichoke....it was wonderful!  

G'night Roma....it's been memorable!  

Italy-April 3rd

A peek into our room

Yummy breakfast....

hard boiled egg, croissant, fresh veggies (tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, carrots),

crusty bread and coffee!

Leaving our room for the day

Door #1, Door #2, Door #3....?

The bridge to no where

Garbage bouncing around, just stuck!

Click on picture to what all is there!

This was supposed to be a lesser known street shopping area.  Maybe several years ago.  

By the looks of things, everyone knows about it!

Piazza de Espagna

Do we WANT to go down there?

The steps down were crowded with people just sitting.  

Kind of like a maze to get through.

Trevi Fountain...Very famous popular place, 

and hard to get a picture without heads!  

A peek in the back door of a kitchen!

This was an open area they had excavated to see the old beneath.  

The place was crawling with cats!

The Pantheon

Street artists

The buildings/houses were intriguing.  

Loved the colors, particularly the rusty pottery color.

After much walking, we decided to take the train out to the airport to check on our luggage, since the phone numbers they gave me to call and check went NO WHERE!

Cheap sunglasses work!

And YES...after sorting through 5 rooms of piled luggage, and piles of it out in the hallways, we found our 3 pieces of luggage, in a room that they didn't even offer...we just stuck our nose in the door!

Thank you Lord!