Mar '12 - Rome for our 14th Anniversary

Labor protest march	The Coliseum	Jim and the Coliseum	Seriously old stones!
Jim and Coliseum	Windows of the Coliseum	Our first pizza in Rome: arugula and salmon!	One of the Roman Fori
Column in a Roman Forum	Monument of Victor Emmanual II	Statue on Victor Emmanual monument	Victor Emmanual monument
Horse atop Victor Emmanual monument	Interesting ceiling!	View from elevator on Victor Emmanual monument	Cynthia being a powerful female charioteer
in the Santa Maria in Aracoeli	The happy couple in front of the Monumento Victor Emmanual II	A Roman forum	Roman forum ruins
Cynthia points out the strange hill from the Hotel Eden terrace	Piazza di Spagna	Jim at Cafe Grecco, via Condotti	Fresh fruit in Rome!
Throwing a coin in the Trevi Fountain (so we'll come back to Rome!)	Drinking from a Roman fountain	Jim and the Trevi Fountain	The happy couple at the Trevi Fountain
Nice photo!	Time for gelato	Cyn in columns of the Pantheon	The ceiling of the Pantheon
The Pantheon	Church spire	"the best coffee in Rome," Cafe St. Eustachio	Cyn in the Cafe St. Eustachio
Typical Roman view	Cyn in Piazza Navona	Rio de la Plate statue, Piazza Navona	Nice Bernini statue!
More pizza in Rome	A lovely quiet courtyard for our picnic pizza	Campo dei Fiori	A nice photo for Jessica!
Unfortunate collection of plastic on the Tiber River (don't ever buy plastic water bottles!)	Isola Tibertina	Jim trying to pet the local kitties	Secret walkway up the Aventina hill
View over Rome and San Pietro Basilica	The happy couple on the Aventine Hill	View of Victor Emmanual II monument	Church on Aventine Hill
Sweet little statue	Cyn looks through "the keyhole"	Carla and Jim chit chat	Carla and Cyn chit chat
Stained glass windows in church on Aventine	Church details, Aventine hill	Carla and Cyn, friends!	Juliana and Luca
Our room in Carla's apartment	Sharing a prosecco	Teresa and Carla	Teresa and Cyn, hard at work
Jim in Carla's apartment	The mysterious Carla!	Egyptian panel in the Vatican museum	Hall of statues, Vatican
Jim in the Vatican muesum	Ceiling in the Vatican	Cyn in the Hall of Maps, Vatican	Jim, entering the Sistine Chapel
Having a break from our Vatican tour	Spiral staircase, Vatican	San Pietro Basilica	The amazing Bernini columns
Jim and San Pietro Basilica	The Pieta, by Michelangelo	The cupola of San Pietro Basilica	Bernini columns over St. Peter's crypt
Cool marble statue in San Pietro Basilica	Cyn being dramatic again	Ceiling detail, San Pietro Basilica	Nice angel
Jim, enthralled by religious art ...	Jim enjoying the cupids in the cupola	Detail, cupola of San Pietro Basilica	Jim climbs the cupola
View from the cupola of San Pietro Basilica	A nice quiet lunch near San Pietro Basilica	Cyn and favorite statue atop Castel San Angelo	Jim and Fontana de Tartarughe (turtles!)
Close up of Fontana de Tartarughe	Basilica of San Paolo	The happy couple in the courtyard of San Paolo Basilica	Close up of door, San Paolo Basilica
Ceiling, San Paolo Basilica	So few tourists at San Paolo Basilica!	Columns, San Paolo Basilica	Incredible stone windows, San Paolo Basilica
Carla and Cyn, San Paolo Basilica	Ancient column, San Paolo Basilica	Malachite altar! San Paolo Basilica	Detail of altar, San Paolo Basilica
Interesting satyr, altat in San Paolo Basilica	Awaiting confessioners ...	Metal statue in honor of veterans	Veteran's sculpture
Carla and Jim in front of Museo Montemartini	Museo Montemartini: juxtaposition of ancient marble and 1930's machinery	Statues and hydroelectric plant machinery	Statue and machinery
Carla behind immense turbines	Looking down over the machinery of power station, Museo Montemartini	Cool machinery	Carla and Jim enjoy view of power station machinery
Nice black statue, black machinery	Cows and machines!	Roman torso	Cyn being a statue again
Nice butts!	The hand of a statue	Athena in the Museo Montimartini	The pyramid at the San Paolo gate of Rome
In the "non-Catholic" cemetary, Rome	Lovely sentiment, tomb in non-Catholic cemetary	The weeping angel ... WOW	Lunch in testaccio neighborhood, Jim and Carla
Cyn buys a pair of Italian boots!	Jim in trastevere neighborhood	Typical Roman view