Roma - Day 2

Today we had decided to head to the Vatican Museum, so we walked through Vatican city working our way toward the museum entrance. Because it was free today the line must have been about a mile and a half. We joined the line for a few minutes until we decided to change plans and try the National Museum of Rome instead. There were a lot of fascinating things to see here and a lot less people.

Some of our favorites were the Discus Thrower and the Mosaic pieces.

Spending too much time in any museum can make you tired, the kids found a great place to stop and rest and let us know it was time to go.

Our next stop was the Colosseum. Before we left each of the kids wrote a report on a main sight in Rome and this was Logan's. When we walked out of the subway station and there right in front of you, bigger than you can imagine, is the Colosseum, Logan was blown away. "Wow, it is ginormous". He was so excited to see it in real life after looking at many pictures and studying all about it.

It was amazing to see so much of an ancient structure still standing. We stood inside while Mark read us more information, it all made a lot of sense when you are looking at it. The boys were of course fascinated with gladiator stories, and all the animals that they brought into the stadium.

After the Colosseum, we walked through the Forum- there was plenty of room for the kids to work out a little energy, so we did just that.














There were many parts of broken buildings laying around, Sophie and I particularly liked this one. Many of the structures are in disrepair, but the history is amazing and you could just picture how it once was.

Dallas has been studying about Julius Ceasar at school, so he couldn't pass up the chance to pose like him, especially in a place where he may have actually been. The last we saw of Dallas he was saying to Logan,"Et tu, Brute?"