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Our last day in Roma!!! So sad!  We went to a market in the morning and then to Vatican city.  We wanted to get some REAL Italian food so we found a little family owned place a little further from the city center and it was really good.

Our street

The door to our hostel

Plants all over these apartments!

So someone told us this is the best Sunday Market in Rome.... I think they made a mistake :p this was more like a garage sale for this little suburb.... A few of the booths were cool

They did have a stand with cool cacti

And my mom would have loved all the beads they had!!!!

Entering Vatican City

St. Peter's Basilica

Toughing it out.... We had to be dressed appropriately on this hot hot day so we went to a little restaurant before entering Vatican City and changed into our jeans and draped our cardigans over our shoulders... it was unpleasantly hot after this :(

Inside the Basilica

The light was doing crazy things

Protectors or clowns???

Eating gelato :)

Another public fountain

Amanda and I saying our goodbyes to Ancient Rome :(

As we were walking up Palatino, Amanda pointed out that she thought she saw a wolf on the hillside... I looked over and was pretty startled.  We both just stood there frozen thinking how is there a wolf right there... and a man walks down with it casually ( not on a leash ) and tells us its his Slovakian wolf, and his pet !!!!! So crazy I pet a real wolves head !!!!!

Some sort of fortification we saw on the way to our family owned Italian restaurant

A pyramid ??

Our fried mozzarella balls appetizer

Cute little restaurant, everyone who worked there was out in the dining room watching the Eurocup game :)

At dinner

My fettuccine alfredo with zucchini and saffron

Topped it off with some amazing tiramisu!

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Pizzzzzza

Fontana del Tritrone

Tempio Adriano

Pantheon

Inside the Pantheon

The only lighting inside is from the circle opening on the top of the dome!

Taking a little rest inside

Egyptian Obelisk in the Piazza di Rotonda

Piazza di Rotonda

Gelato!

Elephant

Chiesa del Gesu ( Church of the Gesu).  It was super ornate inside and had so really crazy paintings hanging from the ceiling

Synagogue

On our way to cross the river

beautiful

My new sandals :)

Walking along the river

Cool bridges

The castle!  Castel Sant Angelo

Palazzo di Giustizia

Spaghetti, Focaccia bread, and wine

Obelisk in Palazzo Montecitorio.

We sat at the fountain around the obelisk for awhile.  It was really pleasant there were people hanging out and listening to people playing instruments

Statue of the Capitoline Wolf

The palazzo

Filling up my water in a delicious public fountain