Roma, Day 3

I forgot to mention yesterday in my tiredness that there is a photo of mom pretending to ride a Ferrari bike from the Ferrari store that we went into right near the Spanish Steps! Today was still a fair amount of walking for us and a long day, but not as long as yesterday. We only walked for 6 hours today; yesterday was about 8! We ventured to the Roman Forum today and the area of the Coliseum. We came upon a march of what we think were the Polizia marching for some reason and using air horns, whistles and mega phones. I took a video of it, so when I get a chance I’ll post it up here. The massive size of the buildings, or maybe I should say the remaining buildings of the Roman Forum were just unbelievable. It’s difficult to imagine that people lived, worked and did everything in this place where we were today so many years ago. We went to a cemetery there that was used during 20-10 B.C. The Temple of Romulus and some of the other Temples were beautiful. The Coliseum was so touristy that we decided it was better not to enter and just take photographs from the outside. After a few hours of touring this area, we decided to go to the Jewish Ghetto and see the Synagogue, which we were informed was one of the oldest Synagogues in the world. This Jewish section also has the largest number of Jews outside of Israel. On our way in the morning too we came upon a man walking his cat that looked so funny I had to take a photo. We decided to eat at a little place close to the hotel on Via Sistina where we had our first pizza (4 cheese, yummy!)- even mom had some of it! Tonight is our last night in Rome and tomorrow we are bravely going to pick up the rental car and venture East. I do not know if we will have internet for the next few days, so this might be the last post for a bit. Ciao!