More Pictures!

So last night, after our dinner (salame and cheese and bread and olive oil for appetizers, fresh pasta and sauce from scratch for entree, some packaged Italian cookies for dessert), a few friends and I decided to go see an event at the Colosseum. I can't tell you exactly what it was because I don't we actually ever got there. Someone said we did, but since it was over we left. Later, someone called us and said they were still at said first event. Anyway, we walked around the Colosseum (about midnight), walked to the Pantheon (about one o'clock), and then to the Trevi Fountain. We then decided to take a bus back since we were SEVERAL Piazzas away from home (about thirty-forty blocks--New York Style). We sat at the bus stop for about twenty minutes before getting on a bus we weren't sure would take us anywhere and being told to transfer at the hub. Which we did and found the bus was actually needed. Be proud of me...I knew it all along.

Anyway the pictures in my album from the night-time walk are of some of the sights we saw. I took a lot of the Trevi Fountain. This is for several reasons: (1) There was NO ONE there, as you'll be able to see. This is a rarity. Ths is one of the great art/fountains in Rome, and always crowded. We got right up to it, took pictures, sat on the steps. We even got to throw our coins in without having to push our way to the front of the line. This is the fountain where throwing coins originated. Tradition says, if you throw a coin (backwards, over your left shoulder) into the Trevi Fountain, you will return to Rome. Two coins (the same way) and you will return to Rome and fall in love. Three coins (the same way) and you will return to Rome, fall in love, and have a child.

Enjoy!

Ciao!
RomanTraveller