Rome

The reason they couldn't get it built in a day is that the whole danged thing is made of brick! I always assumed Rome would be marble or some some such thing. But no, it's bricks. Bazillions of 'em.

I'm posting backwards. We went to Rome in late May, then Tuscany in June. (I actually started this post 6 weeks ago.) It looks like we're crazy mad about Italy all of a sudden, but it just kinda happened. We had already planned the Tuscany trip when one of Rita's brothers wrote to say he had business in Rome and asked if we'd like to meet him there, so we went to Italy twice in 3 weeks.

If you're interested in seeing Roman bricks and some other stuff, you can click on our Roman holiday picture book.