We rented one of these 4 wheel electric bikes to go around the Villa Borghese park | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_1950.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_1964.jpg) | Kenny bargained with on of these vendors for a little squishable ball. | | At the Coliseum. Very crowded, and much of it was closed off. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_1972.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_1984.jpg) | Views from the COliseum to the Roman Forum, which I enjoyed much more | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_1992.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_2010.jpg) | This worker was scrapping away at the cement work | | It would have been really cool if we could have gone down into the passages beneath the COliseum. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_2017.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_2026.jpg) | | | In front of the Roman Forum |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_2037.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_2040.jpg) | | | Roads, rutted from actual Roman chariots! |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_2046.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_2058.jpg) | | | The garden of the Vestal Virgins |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_2061.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_2085.jpg) | The Basilica Maxentius, the largest building in the Forum | | Peter wanted to display his treasures - his ticket stub, and some daisies he found |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_2087.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_2120.jpg) | This guy looked like an archeologist, taking measurements | |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_2129.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_2132.jpg) | At the Piazza Navona, Kenny demonstrates how to use the drinking fountain hole by plugging the main water outlet | | Putting on a show |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_2135.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_2141.jpg) | Kenny took a few pictures of our hotel room before we left. | | In front of the Castel Sant Angelo |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_2144.jpg) | | ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_2155.jpg) | Along the bridge we saw this priest doing some geocaching. We talked to him a bit, he was from the US. | | In front of Saint Peter's Basilica. Unfortunately we timed our visit poorly, and were there while it was closed for mass. |
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| ![](/Pictures/2012/02-15-2012-rome/gallery_img_2183.jpg) | | | The pope, Benedict XVI, giving his weekly homily. He was born in Marktl, Germany, which is about a 30 minute drive from Altheim, Austria, where my father was born. Also, his middle name was Alois, as was my father's first name. | | | | | | |