First stop was Rome for two days.
Still at the airport getting ready for a long flight to Rome. Stop at Cafe Rio would hold us over until we got to eat real Italian food in Rome.
Stopover in Detroit.
Finally in Rome. Boys waiting for the train to downtown train station.
Tyler, Alex and Rod at the Victor Emmanuel Monument
Alex at the Forum
Rod and I at the Victor Emmanuel Monument
Alex at the Victor Emmanuel Monument or what the Romans call the wedding cake building
You would think Alex owns the building.
Tyler and Alex at the Piazza de Poppolo
Piazza de Poppolo
Cool door knocker
Having dinner at Vitti.
Caprese salad started almost all of our meals. So delicious!
Fettucine Ragu
Delicious pizza with prosciutto, black olives, mushrooms and eggs
Tyler eating his fettucine
Alex ordered a salami pizza
At the Spanish Steps
View from the top of the Spanish Steps.
Boys sitting on the Spanish Steps
A car that is just Alex's size
Rod filling a Zija bottle with water from a public drinking fountain
Alex is drinking from the public drinking fountain
Alex and Tyler at the Trevi Fountain
Rod and I at the Trevi Fountain
Beautiful and popular Trevi Fountain
Tyler and Alex making a wish at the Trevi Fountain
Back at the wedding cake building
Julius Ceasar and Alex
Colosseum at night
Alex and Tyler at the Colosseum
Rod and I at the Colosseum
Our family at the Colosseum
We took a private tour the next day.
Our family at the Colosseum
Boys in their short shorts.
Colosseum interior
Alex inside the Colosseum
Alex and Tyler inside the Colosseum
Rod and I inside the Colosseum
Colosseum
Colosseum lower level
Boys and our private tour guide Raffaela
Julius Caesar's tomb
Our family and the Roman Forum in the background
Us and the Roman Forum
Alex at the Pantheon plaza
Pantheon
Rod and Alex at the Pantheon plaza
The open window inside the Pantheon. When it rains, the water falls onto the floor inside and drains from the special drains through the floor.
Boys inside the Pantheon
Us at the Trevi Fountain
We are making a wish and hoping to return to Rome one day.
Going to tour the Vatican next.
First we stopped by to have lunch at Osteria dei Pontefici.
Alex and I are ready to enter the Vatican Museum
Alex inside the Vatican Museum. We visited the Sistine Chapel but couldn't take pictures there. Also we went through the Basilica of St. Peter.
The Swiss guard
Our family in front of Basilica of St. Peter.
Our family at the Piazza San Pietro
Leaving the Vatican
Another dinner
Another Caprese salad
Pizza and Pasta
Tyler getting some Gelato for dessert
Wonderful gelato
Friday night at the Tiber River
Tiber river market at night
Beautiful bridge over the Tiber river
Rod conducting business.
Loose candy. Yay!
I couldn't fill my bag fast enough. I noticed that there were other Finns also who were after this candy. I was in heaven.
Tomorrow we travel to Venice.
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