ROME!!! Our first day!

The Pantheon! This was one of my favorite places. This was built in 125AD and everything is original. The dome, the marble floors and the colums are all orginal. The colums are all one piece of marble and came from Egypt. This is such an amazing building! Raphael the Roman Renaissance artist is buried here (as in one of the Teenage Mutant Ninga Turtles).

Our first day in Rome was so much fun! When we arrived we went first to Piazza Navona for lunch. It is this lovely pedestrian squares with Bernini's famous Fountain of the Rivers. We stopped here for lunch at a fun cafe and this is where we purchased our paintins! So many painters come and this is where they sell their paintings etc. After lunch we went on a walking tour of Rome and this is what we saw & learned.