Day 21- August 26th

Today was Trent's birthday!!!! The big 25. So we did lots of sight seeing, including: Vatican City, St. Peter's Basilica, Trevi Fountain, Spanish Steps, and a little fun birthday ride!

This is the Trevi Fountain.

An amazing view of St. Peter's Basilica.

Trent in front of the Pantheon.

The roof of the Pantheon. It is really an open hole!

Us at the park overlooking Rome. You can see the Basilica to the left. There were amazing views from up here. We had to walk up the Spanish Steps to reach the park.

We decided to rent Segways to explore the park!! I was a little nervous at first. Trent was super excited. All you do is lean forward and backwards to stop and go.

The guy who was in charge of renting the things was HILARIOUS! He was talking about how stupid some people were who were renting them, how they were like crashing, and turning them off, and getting stuck in random places.


Yay!!!! It was so much fun.

In St. Peter's Square.

Inside the Basilica.

Me sending a postcard from the Vatican!

The plan of St. Peter's Basilica and the Vatican.

The wall to the Vatican City.

Day 20- August 25th

Rome! Here we are in the coliseum. What an amazing place. So enormous and old. This is one site I never would have missed.
The ruins.


We finallllly found some delicious cannoli!!!

Day 19-August 24th

Today we had some amazing pasta. We went to a market and ate some of the best, freshest pasta I have ever had in my life.

Delicious, high quality Parmesan cheese!

And meat!

Just a sideways picture of a tan girl.
She cut some meat and cheese for Trent. However, the meat got confiscated on his way through security...

More meat, ham, bacon, sausage, etc.



I did a tour of the Ferragamo museum! It was fabulous. It had old shoe forms of Marilyn Monroe, and tons of celebrities. Even one of Ava Gardner, my great grandmothers old friend!




Pizze for lunch.

This was funny because Trent had been saying how bad he wanted a cannoli... and we couldn't find them anywhere!

Mona Lisa.

The highlight of the trip was this amazing dinner (well besides the gelato). We found this restaurant, that was in Rick Steve's guide book. We decided to go, and inside it looks pretty ghetto. But the food was amazing!


I mean red-checked table cloths. Come on! Then a man invited us to some homemade wine. You can see it in the picture above. Then the chef came out with a huge butcher knife and a huge hunk of meat. And he fed it to the dog with the couple sitting behind us. What an interesting night!!

Day 18- continued, Florence

Welcome to Florence! To me: the home of amazing Gelato. We ate some at least once a day, me up to three times. Oops!


Some appetizing art.

We got to see the Duomo too! Huge and beautiful.

Day 18- August 23rd

We left the Cinque Terre early this morning, to stop in Pisa on our way to Florence. It was about the halfway point. So we got there, and were told you could easily walk to see the tower from the train station, carrying bags and everything. So we set out, looked at the map. The town was a dump. Lots of homeless people, drunks, trash in the streets. It was a Sunday, in peak travel season, and there were very few people around. But it is a must, especially for a quick stop.

We finally got there, it was like a 30+ minute walk, super hot, our bags got so heavy. The church and other buildings are very pretty. They are gleaming white, unlike many of the places we had been.

You can really see it leaning! It is a pretty building.

We got some sandwiches and had lunch in the yard of the tower.

Then of course we both had to take the typical picture, supporting the tower.

This was hilarious. If you look closely, you can see other people doing the exact same thing. From the far back, it is sooo funny to see like 25 people doing that, or trying to do other creative things holding up the tower.