We arrived in Rome yesterday afternoon and spent four hours trying to get into our apartment. It’s a very long story that I won’t spend more energy on but essentially we are in the fifth apartment we saw along the way and boy is it ever “interesting”. Again – no more complaining. We are moving to a (hopefully) nicer place tonight and will stay through Saturday.
We headed out for some yummy Rome pizza and a three mile walk through town. We were lucky enough to be at this monument built for Marcus Aurelius when the sun and the clouds conspired to create a beautiful shot. I felt like the universe was talking to us.
We saw so very many Egyptian obelisks in this crazy town and loved walking into the Pantheon, a pagan temple created in 150 ad and converted to a Christian church in 609.
One of the coolest stops along the walk was the Trevi fountain. We definitely tossed our coin over our shoulders, made a wish, and hoped to return one day to Rome.
The last part of our tour took us to the Spanish steps where we enjoyed a nice refreshing drink of water from the Boat Fountain at the base of the steps. We’ve been really impressed with all the publicly, readily available potible water fountains in Rome. In the 90 degree heat yesterday, we definitely needed a lot of it. Today is a down day for Maylene to get some work done and we’ll head out for another evening stroll. Can’t wait!
