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A very unimpressive picture, I know, but it was a rather stirring moment for me when I took it from the plane, as I was trying to wrap my mind around the fact that I was finally and actually in Italy. 

From landing to leaving, I loved seeing Rome.  It’s hard not to love it when you’re spoiled absolutely rotten by friends who take you under their wing and show you all around the city for 6 days straight.

The first night, Giuseppe and Noemi showed me around via car within and without the walls of the city.  When I first saw the Colosseum lit up with golden lights I could hardly believe what I was seeing.  There it was–the grand testament to not only, shall we say, the more animalistic side of man, but to man’s ability to design and construct such an amazing structure way before  the advent of  hydraulics–its well-known jagged frame still standing defiantly in the middle of traffic as cars circled around it as if it were any other roundabout.  (I’m not a structural engineer–unlike about 90% of the people I was priviledged to meet in Italy–nor do I claim to know anything about architecture, but I think just being a human being qualifies one to be impressed on some level.)

Photos of the Colosseum during the day:

if that’s not enough, here’s a video:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9F_X9rbWMU

Of course, there was plenty of time to explore another venerated aspect of Italy:  cibo (food).

I took about a kazillion pictures in Rome so I’ll need to probably create a Picasa album to show them, but I hope to post some of my favorites in my next blog before I get to rambling about my take on Florence…

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