Honeymoon in Rome!- Part 1

So we got married!!  Instead of being the wedding photographer, we were photographed!!  What a different perspective.  Afterward Hil and I got to fly to Rome for 9 days and boy did we take a lot of pictures while we was there...over 3600 in fact.  We've thinned out the bunch and have most of the editing done.  Since it's taking us a while to get through them, we thought we'd do a half and half posting so you can see some now, and hopefully more tomorrow or Monday.  It turned out to be a good idea numbers wise, for the first half of the trip we have over 75 we want to show you guys (get your scroll wheel/trackpad ready!).  The trip was a blast and couldn't have gone better.  Over the 9 days we were there, it only rained for an hour and the temperatures were gorgeous and most of the time the sun was out shining.  It was quite different to be in a foreign country not on some group trip or other function where you're essentially told what to do.  Getting to plot out our routes each day on the big city map great fun.One thing we learned about Rome is that it is always under construction.  You'll notice we have a some limited shots of the exterior of the Colosseum as half of it's main side is covered by two layers of scaffolding.  Also the Trevi fountain was completely drained and covered in scaffolding as well.  Based on the construction signs it looks like it'll be a couple years before we could go back and see both of these monuments in their full beauty as they are making sure they get repairs and restorations right, guess we'll have to go back..sigh ;) .We also learned that walking is probably the best way to get around...unless you're really good at riding a scooter.  The streets are busy and most lack lanes making it difficult to tell what should be going on until you get to a stop light where things straighten out temporarily.  Sometimes here in America we sit and watch traffic go by and most would call it relaxing, in Rome, it could be a spectator sport.Over the length of the trip we were treated nicely and enjoyed getting to converse in a limited way with those we crossed paths with.  Occasionally the couple next to you would be speaking fluent English and you'd find our they're from California or New York and stories would be swapped.  Other times it was someone with a smile handing you a camera and gesturing for some help taking a photo of them and their significant other.  Getting to experience and see other cultures, not just the one we visited but also the ones of the fellow tourists we met along the way was really neat.Hope you enjoy the first round of pictures and stories, more on the way in the next day or two!!This work by JD Maloney is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.