Day 6: Rome, again

Note: for some reason I was light on pictures on this day. I’m not sure why–I know it was a low-key, but I still usually manage to take a ton of pictures. Oh well.

Day 6, Friday, started early when Joel! had to get ready to leave for the airport. :-( All of us went to eat breakfast coffee and an over-Nutella’d croissant (yes, I’ve discovered there *is* such a thing as too much Nutella!), but then John was still feeling a bit off after his food-poisoning adventure, so he went back to the hotel to crash while Joel! and I tried to find the Piazza Navona before he had to be at the train station.

Two wrong buses later, we think we went *past* the Piazza Navona, but we’re still not sure, and we ended up just giving up and heading back to the hotel. Oh well. Joel!, I think I forgot to tell you this, but John and I found it later on, and it really wasn’t anything exciting or unusual. I didn’t even get a picture of it. So yeah, you didn’t miss much.

Anyway, John finally felt up to wandering just a bit, so we headed out to see the Spanish Steps. I forgot to get a picture of them from the bottom, so here’s one that Joel! took on his first day in Rome.

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View of Rome. That big dome in the center is... well, I don't remember, but the dome behind it is St. Peter's Basilica.

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Fountain in front of the Pantheon. One of the things in Rome that I never got tired of was the colors of the buildings. So so pretty!

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Goofballs in the Pantheon.

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Am I crazy for wanting to buy this for-sale Fiat? I just want to put it in my pocket and take it home with me!

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Friday was a short day, since John was still feeling pretty lousy, so after wandering a bit, we found a cheap lunch counter to eat an early dinner at ($5 for the two of us for chicken and really yummy roasted potatoes! sweet!), then went back to the hotel and hung out and read. Exciting life we lead, I know. :-)