Spanish Steps

Wow, the Spanish Steps are beautiful. The view from the top is amazing as well, especially with a beer.

This was the first place we encountered lined with tourist traps...... Waiters standing outside their restaurants trying to lure you inside with English menus and men tricking women into taking Free flowers  from them "to bring them luck." "They are free they are free.... For you luck....." A few moments later a tap on the shoulder to their partner asking for "just a littke tip" for them for the flowers. 

This happened to Lily and Andrew. Andrew replied "Sorry no euro. Shes not mine." Haha

Beautiful place.  Just say "No Gratzi" A LOT!  And whatever you do don't take the flowers..... or drop them when they slip them in your elbow. They don't like that.  :)

Pantheon

We have been dreaming about Romes Pantheon for years now. It was much different than we had imagined.  Beautiful structure inside and out!

The streets in Central Rome

The night before we were stuck in our own little amaixing world of Trastevere. Now we have crossed the Tiber into Campo di'Fiorie. We were in awe when we stepped into Piazza Novana. It was incredible like in the movies.  But the fun part about Roma, is everything is close together and the streets are all connected. it was so easyto walk around Rome. Here are a few photos of our journey in the streets of Rome.

Roma, Campo di'Fiorie

After our very Italian breakfast we hit up Vodafone for our cell phone plans.  700 minutes and one GB for $20 . Not too bad. 

Then we started our tour of Rome. We pinched ourselves when we saw the Piazzle............. ???

Look at how beautiful the fountain is... There was so much detail,  it was unreal. 

Due cappuccinos, gratzi!

Oh boy did we need breakfast! We headed to camp de'fiori, the neighborhood right across from ours.  While trying to find a Banco/ATM we stumbled across this gem. It was filed with Italians standing at the bar having their morning cappuccinos and espresso.  .80 euros,  standing.  This was less than 5 euros. And it was Katies first cappuccino ever. 

Night caps back at the flat....

We're not sure what time zone we are currently in.  Or bodies are in a crazy loop. Everyone was relaxed and tired. So we decided to head back to the apartment for a night cap and to listen to music. What a great way to end day 1 in Italy!

Pimms and Procecco

What a romantic spot on the little cobble stone lined Piazza.  Pimms is a magical bar in Trastevere just a few blocks from our Flat.  Live music played from inside. We were in awe as an Italian saxophonist, bass player and pianist romanced us.

JJ treated us to a bottle of Procecco... We hadn't had processco until we came to Roma! We were greeted with home baked Potato chips and  fresh green Olives. And we mean,  these are olives so fresh we've never had anything like it!  Mmmmmm.

In just a few hours we were all memorized by Rome and our little neighborhood. It's an unreal feeling but are hoping tomorrow will wake us it of our dream as we tour some of Romans ancient history. 

We were also greeted by several boys selling crazy nick-naks and roses. We would have included a better photo but we're feared they would try to charge us to take their photo haha!