Cary and Char Plus One!

Hello from Rome.

We are here in some internet cafe and checking up on the world. We unfortunately don't have a cable for our internet, and we can't post those tons of pics that we took over the last two days. We have done fun things over the last two days!

We started yesterday at St. Peter's and Cary's camera proceeded to have a senior moment and wanted to take a break from working. This frustrated him to no end, and I had to stop him from throwing it at a tourist. We got it working eventually, and he proceeded to snap away, and wait until we post the pictures. They're pretty amazing. While there we went to visit the tomb of Pope John Paul II, and there were a ton of people around it, and people left little notes by it. I was tempted to leave a note or two myself. We did not see the tomb of Jack Palance. Or Ed Bradley.

We then hauled butt back to the crib, ate some lunch (we've been eating in more than out these days so SEE mom! I can cook!) and went for a nice long walk to Piazza Navona which looks beautiful in the sunset. Cary took pics of some uber hot waiter guys (that will probably be framed on my side of the bed, heh). We then hiked over to the Pantheon, and we have some obsession for "there's someone in there" tombs. We've seen a few: Pope John the 23rd, St. Catherine of Siena. Cary says that he hasn't really appreciated history and geography as much as he does now that he gets to see it all go down. I have to agree with him, but I've always been a history nut.

After the Pantheon we went to the Trevi Fountain. Beautiful in nighttime as it is at night, it was crowded with tourists, and Cary threw in his coins into the fountain: "Among those who are unaware that the "three coins" were thrown by three different individuals, a reported current legend is that it is lucky to throw coins with one's right hand over one's left shoulder into the Trevi Fountain."

That was three monuments in a couple of hours and boy were we tired. So we passed out for the night and started up this morning with another ambitious agenda: The Colosseum, the Vittorio Emanuelle II monument, and the Spanish Steps.

The Vittorio Emanuele was kinda cool, a lot of stairs to walk on, and great views of the smog ridden skyline. Big horse. Big dude. We went around the back of it to the Roman Forum area. It's kind of interesting that they should say "this marks the site of the temple of castor and pollux" but it's only one column. Hm. I guess you have to use your imagination.  

Note to self: wear your crocs or shoes that are very good to your feet. Do not, like these other fools, wear high heels or regular shoes. that's pretty silly, especially on the slippery rocks.

We went to the Colosseum next. Pretty cool, but we didn't actually pay to go in. It's 11 euros, which is rougly fourteen dollars, and it's, well, ruined. So we just cruised around the outside of it. We saw some fat gladiators who would probably be lion food in the first two minutes of stepping foot into the main floor. They were apparently also Cesar's Palace rejects, Cary notes.

Our last stop tonight was the Spanish Steps, always a beautiful place to hang out. I need to buy my post cards tomorrow so I can send those out ASAP! By then our feet were pretty busted, and you know that we can't hang with too much stress on feet, so we stopped for some lunch (he: lasagna and soup, me: caprese salad and soup). 

Now we're on our way back to the apartment to watch more Italian MTV and chill with our handheld video games. It's pretty early so dinner is goign to be on order soon. Cary is going to buy some olives at the local Di Per Di store that we have come to love so much. We'll be back online hopefully before we leave so we can post more pictures, but we are also ready to get back to paris and have more Cafe Cremes. Yum

Okay kids, have a good evening, and talk to you all soon! I'll let you know when the pictures are ready!

Ciao for now,

Char/Cary