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Rome, Italy= Fun!

and went up and down many city streets. We were starving around 4pm and couldn't find a restaurant open (all open at 7pm). We ended up finding this little cafe/gelato/beer shop (soo many of these out here). We ordered a couple dinners and beers and sat outside people watching. We noticed on the menu 'food is cold blasted'. Well, when the food was brought out to us we learned cold blasted meant frozen dinners! The canneloni was pretty good nonetheless. However, can you believe it? First meal in Italy is an Italian frozen dinner?!?! :P

We wandered more then went back to the hotel. Ryan was tired so he went to sleep. I stayed up and watched some dance show in Italian. Went to bed, then both of us woke up a few hrs later hungry and wide awake. It was only 1030. We got up, wandered around and found a good restaurant. I had some pepper and some kind of cheese pasta (yummy) and we had beef cappeloni (I think) for appetizer. We searched for the Pantheon after, but ended up only finding a Gelato joint, bummer :P.

Today we headed out to the Pantheon- oh what do you know it's only 2 min walk from the hotel- in the opposite direction we went the evening before!:p Wow, such a sight!

We continued up the way to Piazza Navona. This was a typical plaza, peddlers up the ying yang and people galore. The surrounding was nice. There was a guy doing acts (magic, circus, acting...) and pulled Ryan to 'play' with him. The guy sat Ryan down, threw a 'magic' blanket over Ryan's head then pulled it off and 'wala' Ryan had hair (a blonde wig :P)

Larissa is a dummy and attempted to recorded this, but screwed up and ended up recording a glimpse of her foot before pocketing the camera (don't ask).

We trekked along to the Vatican, which was simply amazing! The amount of design, texture, creativity- wow!

We had some yummy pizza (of course) for lunch and continued to wander.

Castel Sant' Angelo. Unfortunatley we couldn't take any pictures in the castle. It was prety interesting and a workout :P. Stairs, stairs and more stairs! Breathtaking views of the city from top!

We went back to the hotel after more touring and wandering. We freshened up then headed back out. We ended up at the Pantheon again to have dinner. Enjoyed a couple guitar players, classical Italian singing, harmonica playing and opera singing while eating yummy pasta and drinking delicious red wine!

We wandered more, had a capuccino, and saw the Fontana de Trevi. This was absolutely stunning! Even in the evening, it was amazing! There were so many people gathered around, hanging out, taking pictures, conversating. Wow, beautiful!

Ryan and I took acouple of photos of us, which turned out really good. This guy came over and asked if he could take a photo of us, sure.. Of course this is a guy with a Polaroid trying to sell us photos. At the same time his co-worker handed me three red roses while the other guy was trying to ask Ryan to pay him 10 euro for the two horrible pictures (you couldn't even tell where we were since the background was completely black and we were on one side of the photo). Ryan said no, no, no... then he looked at me, I said no, no, no. I think we gave him like 4 euro, but he kept asking for more. Finally the other guy pulled the roses out of my hand and left. The guy trying to sell the photos finally got pissed off and left too. That was hilarious!

We finished the evening with another cup of gelato :). mmm! more wandering...

Tomorrow? The coliseum!