Rome Is Hot...Day 3...Part 2

After a little nap it was time to get ready for our evening out on the town with Marco.

He picked us up at our hotel and he was so excited.

He said... I have something for you and I want you to wear it tonight.

He reached in the van and pulled out devil horns....his were red and ours were neon colored with a little bit of boa material sound them.

As you can see in the night, ours looked like they were lit.

We must of made a big impression for him to go out and get us some horns.,,hope it didn't have anything to do with the buffalo balls.

He had the door man take our picture several times...so we also had him use our camera as well.

We were told we had to leave our horns on while we were together...and we all did.

 Remember in my day 2 post I took a picture of a building and said when you look through the key hole you could see Rome and St Peter's Basilica...Marco took us back there to see it at night and it was beautiful....below is the one picture that came out...it doesn't show it all but still a very cool shot.

My camera had a hard time focusing cause the door was confusing the camera...but at least I have this one shot.

 Some of my pictures didn't come out that great at night....I was having camera issues...but Marco took us up hill to an area to see another view of Rome...it was beautiful along with some of the buildings we saw along the way.

 We the stopped for a slushy...this part of town was hoping and the slushy place was busy...you can also by beer and mix drinks from the street stand as well and walk with them...reminded me of Vegas....If you look closely you can see in the left hand corner of the picture in pink, Lonnie with her horns on and then a little to the right of her under the light is Marco with his on.

 So, as we had our slushy which also had a slice of fruit with it,,, we just enjoyed the night air and our surroundings...we looked down at the Tiber River with it's street vendors and places to eat and drink wine...they also had amusement type games and had several Foosball tables....I said ...hey look, they have Foosball...and Marco is like, Foosball, what is Foosball and I showed him and he said no it's a soccer table and I'm like...where I come from it's Foosball....

I wish we would of found this place sooner...it would of been a cool place to hangout for a couple hours or so. 

 and then we were off to another square...Marco dropped us off and Lonnie and I walked through it and met Marco at the other side...this fountain is called the called The Four Rivers.

 the square was a wonderful place...kids playing..vendors selling their goods....artist painting...people sitting outside and having wine and just enjoying the evening.. going out for a Saturday night in Rome is so different than ours...I like there's so much better...mainly cause it's just relaxing and no hurry.

 below another picture as we walked through the square

 we met Marco just at the end of this little side street

 where we then saw the Trevi Fountain...just as beautiful at night but oh so much more crowded

there were so many people all around....we didn't bother to go down closer as we had already done that and had our pictures made and our wish taken care of.

 When then stopped and had some gelato and walked around ...we only had a couple hours with Marco and it was nearing the time we had to part...we were taken back to the hotel where we said our good-byes.

Our time with Marco is one we won't forget nor our time in Rome....we wore our horns while with Marco...we had looks and even questions of why and it was all good fun.

Thanks Marco!

After leaving Marco we made our way around the corner from our hotel to a little pizzeria where we shared a pizza and a bottle of wine.

 When then walked around taking in Rome one last time and walking off that pizza.

As we came back to our hotel the area was hopping.
This picture was taken from in front of our hotel looking out you see the gladiator school in ruins in the distance you see the Colosseo and to the left with all the lights there are wall to wall people at the restaurants hanging out...

this is a gay section of Rome...one street is where the gays hang out...it is about 95% men

they are just doing their thing and having a good time just like anybody else on a Saturday night except it's a little more crowded....apparently there aren't that many areas where they hang out so openly.

And what was amazing is that with this huge crowd we heard very little noise from our room.

I was curious how you would wait on that many people outside.

Then it was time to go to our room and get some shut eye...for in the morning we needed to pack and make our way to the train station....destination...Florence.

Thank you Rome....we had a wonderful time in your city...should of made it longer...next time I know better.