Rome Part II

Sorry it's taken me so long to post more about our trip. I think for the most part this was the second day that we were in Rome.

This is the Pantheon, which is the first known example of a building with a spherical roof.

Here is us in the inside of the Pantheon.

The point of this picture was to get Vatican City in the background, but the guy taking the picture didn't count to three (which is why my eyes are closed)

The gelato was amazing, which I already mentioned in the first post about Rome, but seriously... I could eat it all day!

In front of the Fontana de Trevi (the movie When in Rome was based off this fountain). And yes, that is a gelato cup in my hand :)

We had this crazy idea to rent one of these rickshaw bike things. I was pretty sure we were going to run someone over with it. It was a lot of fun! We thought it would be a good idea to ride over to a museum that we wanted to visit the next day (we thought they were all sold out for that day). So we rode over there - going up hill in a rickshaw is not an easy task - and the museum didn't have tickets for the time that we wanted but they said that since we were only two people we could go through the museum right then! Which was great, except that we had to return the rickshaw and then run back to the museum before it closed. In the end it was good exercise and the museum was well worth it.

Viddy planning what our next stop will be, or just trying to figure out the best way to get somewhere. I took a picture because he was doing this a lot on the trip, which I was grateful for.

Rome Part I

Rome was our first stop on our trip to India. It was awesome and I loved every minute of it.

The first day we were there we went to the Colosseum and the Roman Forum, but before we could even walk a block, we had to get some gelato!

Sadly, my first experience with gelato wasn't as awesome as I thought it would be. It turns out that the gelato was old, and I picked a flavor that I didn't like. But the 50 other scoops of gelato that we had were awesome.

At the Colosseum.

This was a view from the Colosseum overlooking the Roman Forum.

That is the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine in the background.

We had a tour book and we were going to go to a restaurant that the book recommended, so we walked and walked and took a couple wrong turns and walked some more. When we finally got the restaurant, they were closed until dinner time. So then we went around the corner and found a little pizza shop and had some great pizza. Why is it that pizza tastes so much better in Italy?

This was our last serving of gelato for the 1st day and it was really really good. As you can see, I was pretty excited about it.

After lunch we went to a couple more museums and then decided that since it was getting late we better try and find our hotel. Well it turned out that our hotel wasn't really in Rome... After figuring out how to use the pay phones there, we called the hotel and asked them what tram we needed to take to get there. So we got a train pass, and got on the tram... heading in the wrong direction. Luckily it didn't take us long to realize our mistake, so we got off and headed in the right direction. Since this hotel is so out of town, there isn't a bus that goes up there, so the hotel has a van that makes a few trips a day to and from the hotel to the train station. The last pick-up from the train station is at 9pm and when we got off the train it was 9:10 and there was no sign of the van. We were really lucky that night because there were other people there waiting for the van. I'm pretty sure that the van did an extra trip that night because all the other times it left right on the hour. Anyways, in the end we made it to our hotel.

And for any of you planning on traveling to Europe, remember to bring toilet paper. Not everyone believes in it there and apparently at the place we were staying it cost extra to have it put in your room.

It's Official!

After nearly a year of waiting, we are finally approved as an adoptive couple. Our profile is up ready!

Here is a link to the profile. https://itsaboutlove.org/ial/profiles/23421045/ourMessage.jsf

Thanks for all your prayers and love. We are so excited.