Rome

  The first night our little Rome family checked out the fountain where if you throw one coin over your shoulder it means you're coming back and if you throw two coins it will give you luck.  I fumbled them and we're not sure it 1 or 2 went in, so like everything else with me... who knows.  Afterwards we walked through the city to the Palantine and
then by night the Colisseum.  Them found a pretty decent restaurant and had dinner in to shadow of the Colisseum; definitely one of the top 10 moments of the trip. 

  Day 2 we had lots of walking and things to see and do but because of the rain we only ended up going to the Colosseum again.  This time we went in and spent a solid hour and half; didn't realize it was a partial museum inside as well.  Then the rain hit, it's amazing how quickly all the Indian guys selling fake Prada bags suddenly pull out dozens of umbrellas, "You wet, you wet, 10 Euro umbrella."  "Thanks captain obvious but since I'm already soaked the umbrella is kinda useless."  As soon as it stopped raining the umbrellas went back into the fake Prada bags, "They should have been doing some sort of combination deal."  That night was pretty chill.  We bought one use bbq╒s and had some burgers and hot dogs and it was another early night. 

  Day 3 somehow we all missed each other at our meeting point so it ended up being Becky and I for the day.  First we went to St. Peter's Square and toured through the Vatican.  Funny thing is that we were more excited finding places that movies had been filmed: Eurotrip, Angels & Demons etc.  Then it was off to the Vatican Museum where we came up with the "Theory of 98% Idiots"  We spent about 1 1/2 hours there as we made our way to the Sistine Chapel,  It wasn't exactly what I expected but nonetheless still remarkable to stare up at some of the most renown pieces of work in the world.  As bad as it sounds we really couldn╒t be bothered to see anything afterwards, "This is also explained further in the 'Theory of 98% Idiots'"  So we made some sandwiches and had lunch out front of Castello St. Angelo.  Not too worried about missing some of the other sights, we got to see what we wanted see plus a few other things.  That night we had the bbq's going again and cooked up a feast over a few drinks and some pool. 

     The next morning was time for our Rome family to split, including Becky and I after our 2 week adventure.  Now I╒m off to Florence for 1 night (had to cut off 2 nights there because of Venice, but I'm happy that it worked that way though, Florence seemed a bit boring), then to Cinque Terre for 2 nights.