To celebrate Chris' birthday this year, we went away to Rome for a long weekend. It was a wonderful getaway! The warm weather gave us a nice break from the cool autumn weather here in London. And, what's not to love about eating amazing pizza and pasta four days in a row!
Chris and I were in Rome a few years ago and we saw all of the must-see sites and went on all of the tours of those sites then, so this trip was a lot more laid back (which worked out perfectly since Nathan was with us this time). We spent our time just wandering the streets, seeing whatever sites we saw along the way, eating gelato, and stopping to eat at whatever restaurants looked like they had good food. It was a wonderful way to see a city!
Nathan loved Rome and wants to go back. Although, when you ask him what his favorite part of the trip was, he says it was the basketball he got there :) When we first go there, Chris made the mistake of promising to get him a basketball while we were there (basketball is his current favorite sport). We figured we would find a little souvenir basketball somewhere (Rome does have a basketball team - apparently Kobe Bryant played there at some point when he was injured). But, after two days of walking around the city and looking in all of the souvenir shops without finding a single basketball, we finally found a full-size Michael Jordan basketball in the Nike store. It wasn't exactly what we had in mind, but Nathan was thrilled! He carried it around everywhere we went for the rest of the trip. Unfortunately, the flight attendants made us pop it on our flight home (they were worried about the air pressure, and yes, this did result in tears from a certain 3 year-old, but luckily he didn't really realize what was happening and was happy again once he figured out that they weren't taking it away from him completely), so Nathan ended up with a new one here in London :)
Here are some pictures from our wonderful Roman get-away. And, happy birthday to my amazing husband!
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| Thanks to a strike by the airport workers in Rome, we had a 5-hour delay at Heathrow. Thank goodness for the BA Lounge and the IPad! |
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| Nathan is looking for the coins he threw into the Trevi Fountain. |
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| The Trevi Fountain |
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| Eating gelato with his Italy football (this was before we found the basketball). |
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| The waiters at one of the restaurants we ate lunch at brought out a football and started kicking it around with Nathan. They kept calling him "Baby Messi." |
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| The Spanish Steps |
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| Playing in the fountain at the bottom of the Spanish Steps |
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| Piazza del Popolo |
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| Listening to the Pope speak (he is in the second window from the right). |
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| Waving his Pope flag :) |
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| St. Peter's Basilica |
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| A boy and his basketball. |
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| The Colosseum |
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