Sorry if this takes too long to load... I went a bit overboard on bandwidth with the number of images in this post. Here's a few of my favorite images from our first stop in Rome on our honeymoon tour of Italy. I think Rome was our "least favorite" city in Italy if you can have such a thing. I mean, c'mon, we were in Italy... even so-so cities over there make most of our cities look like Mayberry. Actually, strike that last comment... I'd probably like Mayberry for it's Nostalgic feel and backdrop. You get what I'm saying, though. It's not that we didn't like Rome; it was still pretty cool... I think we just gravitated towards the smaller, more quaint, village-like feel of the other cities we visited. I loved the character and color of the architecture in Rome and, for that matter, all the cities we visited. I prolly have a 100+ images of building front vignettes just like the one below. I never get tired of these.

On our way to ride the Metro. Side note, the Metro transportation system wasn't as extensive as I thought it would be, but we found out why later during our tour of the Vatican. 60% of ancient Rome is still buried, so anytime someone wants to dig underground, it's a big to-do and you have to go through an extensive process and get all kinds of approvals after archeologists come out and do a survey/study to make sure you're not gonna be diggin' up Ceasar's pet dog bones or destroying some priceless ruins.

We walked through this big par on our way to the Galleria Borghese museum. BTW, I swear Italy must have the largest population of pigeons per capita of anyplace on this earth. They're everywhere. Interesting factoid: Venice even puts a form of birth control in the pigeon feed that tourists can buy.

The Piazza di Spagna, home of the Spanish steps and some expensive shopping.

... and here are said Spanish steps. Like most of Italy, there were a lot of them. They love their stairs.

Did I mention it was raining for much of our stay in Rome?

Kylie doing her part to promote tourism.

In a basillica just off the Piazza di Spagna. So many fantastic churches all over the place.

The Trevi Fountain

Supposedly if you throw a penny over your shoulder into the fountain and wish you make it back to Rome the next year, it will come true. I broke tradition and wished for more gelato that night. My wish came true. And check out those wide angle lens Hulk hands. "Hulk... want... gelato!!!"

For some reason I just thought this was funny.

What? I'm just mindin' my own business standin' by this water fountain lookin' at the Coliseum across the street.