Why does everything sound beautiful in Italian.
Ciao bella...Senora...PaPa...Caffe latte and even toileta. We love pretending we are italian and try not to just add a vowel at the end of english words like rooma...streeta... and wina :)
We had an incredible day. We slept til 10 which was nice since we were up drinking wine and eating until almost 1am. We went down to the coffe shop outside the door of our hotel for tomato, mozzarella sandwiches and coffee. That is breakfast here I swear. And as we drank and ate to our hearts content...we watched the United nations of people pass us on the street. The whole world is represented here. We saw a group of teenage boys yesterday all speaking rapid Italian...but one was asian, one was blond and one had the biggest head of red hair I have ever seen.
We bought a 48hr tour bus ticket so we can see EVERYTHING and ride around on the top of a double decker bus all day. VERY great. We can get off and wander and eventually another bus will pick us up.
There are 12 stops. Today we saw 3! In 7.5 hours.
We saw a heart stoppingly beautiful church, the spanish steps (where we were swindled by a street peddler into thinking he was GIVING us red roses), the Trevi Fountain and the Hard Rock Rome. Every other hard rock has pictures or posters of Jimmy Hendrix, this one had a stain glass window of him. Italy!
We walked ALOT and took ALOT of pictures. When we were leaving the chapel at the top of the spanish steps it started to rain. Ahhh just like home we thought. What better time to sit outside at a cafe and drink a latte under a tent. As we were all squished into the few tables that were protected outside from the rain...we met the most amazing older French couple. We shared stories about our kids, as they had just adopted a beautiful 10 year old boy and talked about places in the USA they know. For Teena and I this is what this trip is about. Meeting amazing people from around the world.
We came back towards our hotel, bought some corn nuts and a bottle of red wine and chatted about our day. Then we strolled the streets to find a new place for dinner and found another great place with homemade pasta, a plethora of tomatoes and mozzarella and vino rosso!
Now it is almost 11pm and we are getting a good night sleep so we can go to church tomorrow in the old part of Rome at the Saint Maria church before see the Pantheon, the Colloseum and the museum of archelogy.
We had the most amazing day and talked frequently about how we wished our friends and family could see this, they would love it. So we are including some pictures for you to relive our adventure with us.
Love to all
J and T (or mom to the four of you)
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