We started the day by taking a phone booth picture as we walked to the Pantheon outer walls through the outer doors

that are 1800 years old and up to the sky and some pictures of the interior

including us and the holes where the water goes.

Once outside, we took pictures of the façade including the ancient Roman and the structures across the street and headed off to lunch.

On the way to lunch, it started to rain and the restaurant was not yet open ( some people think we used our friends at the Vatican from yesterday to bring on the rain ) so we went back to the Pantheon to see whether the rain does come in through the hole in the roof.

and onto the floor The photographer did a marvelous jobs of capturing the droplets of rain as they made their way down.

After lunch we began our walk to the Trevi Fountain through this beautiful street that was supposed to have the best chocolate in Rome (which unfortunately was closed). At the Trevi Fountain, we recorded the structure

as well as ourselves

doing the coin toss shuffle and the water itself curiously it stopped raining just when we got to the fountain (as though arranged by our contacts who made it start to rain so that we could see the Pantheon both ways) We also took some gratuitous pictures of the ground and the man with the video camera.

Next we began our pilgrimage to the alleged site of the finest gelato in all of Italy. This man spooned it out including licorice flavored that was a religious experience ( where else but in Rome ). He even took the obligatory picture of us enjoying his wares.

Next we went to the Via Veneto where we saw this gentleman holding forth in a café near these steps which imitate the Spanish Steps. We later discovered that he was a waiter at the establishment and that these were not the real Spanish Steps but we did see Jane's middle name on the way to the real thing along with this sign

At the real Spanish steps, this was the view from on top and this is how the steps looked and here was the skyline This was the view up from the bottom along with the view at that level We walked around the bottom but Jane was disappointed because Georgio Armani was closed. We took a subway home and managed to avoid the pickpockets.