Aftermath: Rome

Veni, vidi vici! Or something like that. Caesar!?

My first night in Rome, I went to the Colosseum (back to. I love you, 15 yr old Italian crazy self). Looked and felt exactly the way I left it:

The Colosseum and the Roman Forum:

What I will show my children when they someday ask to see pictures of my backpacking days (like those days will ever end, but you get the idea): 

#LOVE

My first Italian meal this year! And subsequently what I ate for every meal thereafter. Thanks for the tight-fitting pants, Rome:

 

 The Colo at night (obviously):

BRUSCHETTI aka FOOOOOD

In my original, pre-trip monologue (the one that was painfully long), I wrote about how I would get back to the restaurant where I had my first international meal. HUZZAH GUESS WHO FREAKING FOUND IT WITHOUT A MAP:

Which begs for the original pic, which I lovingly dug up from the graves of my high school photo albums:

SEE??? EXACTLY THE SAME. Omg. This was way funner for me than it should have been.

 Get at me, Pantheon.

Had to:

I have this exact picture from 11 years ago. LOOKS THE SAME (go figure): 

  

Looking out at da people:

Inside Rome's oldest Church (still the Pantheon, keep up):

PEEK-A-BOO PANTHEEEE:

How you get ebola in Rome?

Il Steps di Espagna (Spanish Steps in fake Italian): 

Piazza Navona, where Tom Hanks pulled a fake pope out of a fountain!

Castel San Angelo! Another Tom Hanks (and subsequently, ME) favorite:

Piazza del Popolo:

Piazza....de.... oh my god. church overload.

SOMETHING, I DONT EVEN KNOW:

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