Roman Holiday

Took the first day in Rome to get our bearings. Sat on the Spanish Steps and then wandered to the Pantheon. Em and John, after much debate and analysis on whether you said right or left out of the pantheon and to what faccaceria you were referring to I final got pulled in by a shop owner- literally. Peter is taking pictures 360 of all places you could have mean't and I get pulled in to this little store by this awesome lady who wants a picture with her and I. Got focaccia sandwiches and ate them on the pillers of the pantheon where it seemed everyone else around us was eating McDonalds. SAD! Wandered through back streets and stumbled upon things hopefully on the path less beaten. Found a bibliotechque that had awesome statues. I love how after every corner there was a fountain that has drinkable water.(Carla please confirm this is true) So hot here!
Day two in Roma started with what we thought was going to be a quick lunch. Not so much. After waiting through two bottles of wine (neither of us is traveling with a watch, which makes everything so much more interesting and we tell time by other means) I finally have to run down the street to get chips from a market so Peter will put down the knife and stop threatening the waiter under his breath. It seemed that all of the food was coming from a resturant across and down the street, it was so bizzare. Food actually ended up being amazing, the only problem was because it took so long (from a clock we found on the street it was roughly 2.5 hours, way to kill a day) we drank two bottles of wine and were less than sober going to St. Peter's Basilica. Vatican was closed so we went back to hang out on the Spanish Steps to dicide the rest of our night. Peter really wanted to do a pub crawl so he could get a shirt that said 'I came, I saw, I crawled' that was meeting at the steps. When we got there some type of performance was being set up. I ended up taking a little nap, went to go and get food and saw that there were fireworks set up on the top of the steps. Had no idea what was going on but figured we would say and find out since the steps were starting to fill up. Ended up sitting on the steps for roughly 5 hours but saw probably what I would say is the best performance of my life. The performance ended up being in celebration of the Mid-August holiday. I had no idea at the time what this was, but later found out that it is when there are the most shooting stars in the sky over Italy. The performance had the fountain on the bottom of the steps as the backdrop and consisted of dancers, piano and violin solos and four Opera singers singing pieces from different Operas. Carmen, Figaro, La Boheim and of course the drinking song from La Travita in which the mayor of Roma came out to do a toast preceeding the firework show. It was such an amazing thing to stumble upon.
Our third day in Rome we went to the Patheon and Forum. So much history, I feel I could spend a whole year here and still have not discover everthing there is to discover. Walked over to the island and trastevere to have dinner. Thunder showers ran us into a quaint little resturant were we had a delicious three course meal and watched a beautiful sunset. Hope the second coin I tossed in the Trevi Fountian works and I will come back.