Saturday, March 24, 2012

Site seeing highlights

My in-laws Paul and Helen and my niece Megan spent nine wonderful days with us.  We enjoy traveling with them -- they are easygoing and don't mind me bossing them around while playing tour guide :)  We crammed so much site seeing in I could barely keep up with my journaling.  Here are some photo highlights from the past 10 days around Rome:


The Colosseum (Colosseo), the iconic Roman site.
Riley helped our fantastic tour guide fill in the gaps of 2,000 years of historical context.



Four laborers, enjoying their pizza on a Roman wall :)


Learning to "read" Roman art.  For example, whenever you see a sculpture of a man with a beard sitting/lying in this position, the sculpture represents a river.  You then use the other objects in the sculpture to interpret which river is being depicted.


Gelato, of course!  And my niece, Megan :)


The gems of the Vatican Museums.


Hard-working street vendors.


The incredible work of Bernini's Four Rivers Fountain in Piazza Navona.


Miniature-sized vehicles of all kinds :)

There are lots more photos in our Flickr feed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/waynesaucier/sets/

Ciao!

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