7/21/11

Thursday morning Patti and I got to sleep in!  We were very happy about that.

We started our day with lunch about ten minutes away, by Piazza Navona, followed by what else but gelato.  We had a lot of gelato during our lovely vacation week.  When we finished eating, we explored the piazza a little more and then headed back to our hotel in order to take pictures of each of us looking out from our room.  It was fun, but then I could not find Patti after she had taken my picture, and she did not see me, so we spent about ten or fifteen minutes wondering where the other person was...luckily we are BBM friends hahaha

Once we reunited, we decided to visit a few places around the Colosseum.  We walked around and noticed a few areas we had not seen on our first trip that way, including the Domus Aurea, and then the Campidoglio.  After those, we visited the church where La Bocca della Verità is.  This is a sculpture carved of marble of a face with a mouth.  The mouth is a hole and supposedly if a person tells a lie while their hand is inside, it will be bitten off.  La Bocca della Verità was made famous in the movie Roman Holiday.

On our way back to the hotel afterwards, we stopped in an Irish Pub.  Eric Smith told me that I needed to while I was there and I had seen it while riding back in the cab the day before.  They were very friendly and I enjoyed it a lot.  Plus, the news was in English so I learned a few things that are going on in the world, even if they are not so happy.

After our drink at the pub, we once again went to the rooftop bar of our hotel and said goodbye to our bartender friends.  They were very nice and we even got a picture with the one that had begun to expect us each night!  We ate dinner at another place around the corner that was recommended by the desk of the hotel, and they really seem to know their food!  There was also such a cute family there celebrating a new house.  They were so nice and we talked to them for some time.

We probably stopped for gelato after that, but I do not remember because we literally had it about twice a day for the entire week.  I got to bed at a decent hour because all of the walking we had been doing that week was really tiring me out!