As long as the Colosseum stands...

Day 2 in Rome brought us tons of history and torrential downpours. Yes, it rained all day long, and well into the evening. While the rain did not dampen our sightseeing spirits, it did make for very soggy feet. Keep your fingers crossed that the rain lets up tomorrow....

As for the sights toured today, we began with the "mother of all Roman sites"...the Colosseum. Apparently, the expression is "As long as the Colosseum stands, then Rome will stand; as long as Rome exists, then the world will exist". Yea, well...so it does.









Sadly, the first sight on the "when we come back to Rome, we must see this in more detail" list, was the Roman Forum. We are only into Day 2 and we are already thinking of our return trips. Our tour group (fodder for another post...oh, my!) simply drove past the Roman Forum, rather than walking through it. Granted, it was really raining, but....

(this is only one small part of the Roman Forum on the east side).



Constantine's Arch.



Trajan's Forum and Market (no comments about the hair, please!).









Our afternoon took us to the Christian catacombs and San Paolo fuori le mira (St. Paul's Church), which is the built on the site where St. Paul is buried.







We'd had enough of the group by mid-day (Calgon, take us away!) and so Bud and I fled for some museum time at the Capotoline Museum (good rainy day past-time) and dinner on our own. Some night shots (in the rain) of Rome...