Saturday, Last Site Seeing Day in Rome

Saturday was our day to catch those last things on the LIST.

We hopped on the metro and headed to the Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini church.  It was an crypt in which walls were decorated with bones.  The different crypts contains bone themes.  One crypt focused on using scapulas, others focuses on other bones, like the pelvis and the femurs.  The crypt contains the bones of over 4,000 friars.  If you would like a bit more information read here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_della_Concezione_dei_Cappuccini.

When we were done, we headed to the Trevi fountain to throw in our coins.  Legend says that if you throw it in with you right hand over your left should (see Cian's picture) that you will come back to Rome someday.  I think that everyone did it, except for Sean.  Colin did it just to prove it wrong, he apparently is not keen on coming back.

 He looks so thrilled doesn't he?  Are you convinced that he wants to come back?  Me either!

 Then we started walking.  We first came to the Temple of Hadrian.  Which is timely as Colin is going to be making a hike to Hadrian's wall in Scotland later this year (more about that in a later post).

 Then we wandered to the Monumentale Augusto.

We settled for some lunch at this fountain.  We just had some crackers, parmesan cheese, sausages and water to drink.  Some of the crackers were quite pulverized so we feed then to the birds that were around.

 While walking around we found this little festival.

This picture may seem odd, but I have reason behind it, promise.   All the time that we were walking around Rome, we would see confetti on the walks.  So, we naturally wondered about all the confetti.  Rome does not seem to be a party city, remember there are over 900 churches! Twice, we saw little kids in strollers with a bag of confetti, throwing it.  One mother got a little cross because he son was throwing it in the air above his stroller, instead of throwing it on the ground.  Sean and I had a little laugh about it.  So, while we were in the festival, we saw lots of confetti being thrown by the little kids.  Maybe I am wrong and there are more parties in Rome, they are just festivals!

This is a hire car, one that you can rent in the city.  Genius! 

Castel Sant Angelo in the background....

Here are Cian and Liam, we were back at Castel Sant Angleo.  They are standing in a low arch, above them is a walk way that the pope would use to leave the Vatican to go to the castle if there was a threat of trouble.

Here are all the boys, our last picture with the Vatican behind them.  So, ended our last day in Rome!  Dinner was take out from a tattoria so we could finish up our packing and head back to the UK the next morning....