Day's Mileage: 14 (that is a record!)
Inside the Colosseum! Can you believe it only took 8 years to complete? (and it took KSU 1/4 of the time to finish that parking garage...)
Some detail in the brickwork
Testing out sepia mode again. Looking into the Colosseum. The light was wonderful this day.
Some of the original iron ties
A close up of the upper 2 levels. You can see where the stairway once was.
Looking into the Colosseum
A cat at the Colosseum, with a column laying in the background
Another Colosseum picture. I just loved this place....
The courtyard of the Vatican Museum
At Museo Vaticani. This is one of the many long hallways. This one is the map room with large floor to ceiling hand illustrated maps. We literally walked 2 miles in the museum winding our way through to get to the Sistine Chapel.
Stairway exiting the Vatican Museum
Walking through the columnade at San Pietro.
We stopped by the Pantheon during the day and caught a bit of sunlight.
The group resting on a column outside the Pantheon. (Amy, Amanda, Josh D, Laura)
Plaza outside the Ara Pacis (Altar of Peace) museum. A nice example of modern landscape architecture. It does look a lot better lit up at night though. Since it's all white stone, the stone shows the city pollution easily.
A look at the lighting effect in a shallow pool of water. There were fountains coming out in a grid from each of these lights but they weren't on either of the times we walked by this plaza.
Yeah.....we went to McDonald's in Italy. Just to say we did. Plus we were really tired that day and just wanted something quick (although, I must say, Italians don't really know the meaning of fast-food. I mean, the food was good, but they were slow getting it to us). Funny story, we try to practice our Italian everywhere we go but it was pretty hard in Rome, most Italians would just speak to us in English. I'm not sure why we thought McDonald's of all places would be any different...
Amy walks up to the clerk and orders: "Vorrei....Chicken McNuggets..."
The clerk just laughs at her: "haha....do you want the meal?"
Amy: "ya"
Then I go up and order a Crispy McBacon (in English).
The clerk asks "medio o grande?"
I respond "si!" (having only heard 'grande' and thinking 'well ya I want a large! I'm really thirsty and we can't get free refills in Italy'
Well I'm sure the Americans gave him quite a laugh that night.....
I must say though, it was one of the nicest McDonald's I have ever been to. The interior details of hardware, furnishings, and decoration was sleek. It was a three level restaurant with the uppermost an outdoor patio on the roof.
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