Italy Day 3

Our nights sleep in the Golden Tulip in Rome was minimum.  The beds were hard and uncomfortable.  Oh well...we left the hotel around 0900 and visited the Colosseum, Pantheon, several Basilica's, Roman Forum, and finally settled for dinner at Opera Restaurant for Rome's version of the American Thanksgiving feast.   Somehow as we were walking around the Roman Forum, I lost my ticket, so I was petrified that I couldn't get into the Colosseum.  Gratefully, our tour guide gave me his ticket so I didn't have to buy a new one.  We didn't have much Euro on us since we handed over 496 Euro the night before for what we thought would include the rest of the trip's excursions...well it didn't :(.  So it was nice Andreas let me have his.  When we went to the Trevi Fountain, we were able to find an ATM to take out Euro to last us the remaining 4 days.  My favorite was after we were walking to the art gallery and I saw Giada De Laurentiis taking money out of an ATM, then walking through the streets of the gallery.  My hubby called me the paparazzi and told me to stop taking pictures of her...LOL.  I was so excited to see someone famous!
Pictures:

The "White House" of Rome

Group of protestors for education

Roman Forum

Colosseum

front shot of Roman Forum

Colosseum wall

Trevi Fountain

Pantheon

Giada

Thanksgiving dinner