Kevin: Random events from Friday and Saturday in Roma

The chronology of these posts makes no sense. Sorry.  so much map reading to do, it,s hard to keep on a writing schedule.  Since we can't get a handle on it, I think we'll just include the word "random" in all the titles.

Spent the beautiful day on Saturday with several hundred thousand of our fellow ancient history buffs--and minus two of out favorites--doing the Palantine hill and Roman forum which we missed last time.  Luckily the ruins are spacious and commodious  especially since Phil and Brooks decide watching tourists mill about the Colosseum beats wandering through the debris of the ancient civilization and bailed out on the excursion early.

Phil is pondering a career dressing up as a centurion and posing with tourists for a small fee. He's concerned about why he would he put under "occupation" on forms, however. Faux Roman?

Brooks continues to spend all his time avoiding museums and churches  which is odd for someone traveling in a country where both are as common as Starbucks in Seattle.

In what is something of a tradition, Kevin takes time out of all this culture to force the group (minus Brooks, of course, to see an comprehensive retrospective of Andy Warhol and an exhibit of the 70's celebrity photos of Terry O'Neill.   The last time I was in Rome I saw an exhibit of Grace Kelly's belongings so this counts and a step up or a further slide down the taste scale depending on your opinion whether a photo of Audrey Hepburn sunning herself in a bathing cap counts as culture.
I know what side I come down on.

Kate isn't writing much this trip..she's too busy making first name basis friends with the locals. as Marj and write we hear we hear a joyous reunion between she and our waitress of two nights ago. I think tears were being shed..of joy, of course.