Rome, Italy - September 2009

Rome was huge and crowded. Our hotel was located at the Trevi Fountain but our room was actually in the Annex building a couple of blocks away. At first we were a little peeved by this but after we saw how crowded the Trevi Fountain area was all through the day and evening, we were glad to be in the Annex.

We road the subway system alot to get around. It was easy and we had passes for the time we were in Rome so that saved money.

We enjoyed an afternoon of going through the Roman Forum ruins and climbing to the top of Palatine Hill. The views were wonderful of the Colosseum and the Victor Emmanual Memorial. After finishing up at the Roman Forum, we walked down the Via Sacra and over to the Colosseum. The whole time I was in complete awe over the fact that I was walking on the same stones that Julius Caesar walked on.

The Colosseum is a site for sure. What was funny were the guys outside dressed as gladiators who would try to get tourists to pose with them for photos. But watch out, they would want a hefty price for doing it. They are known to be dangerous and sometimes not so nice to unsuspecting tourists. Bryan and I had no problems on our whole trip. We would have been the perfect two to attack considering the shear amount of expensive gear we carried with us. But, let me tell you, we both would have beat the living daylights out of anyone who even tried to snatch something. We were some heavy packing tripod armed people for sure!

We pulled another butt crack of dawn photo shoot at the Trevi Fountain and me in my dress. It was alot of fun and I'm glad that we did it.

Our last day there we mostly stayed at our room and slept. We were exhausted and ready to come home.

We had accomplished what we set out to do on this trip and that was to do a little recon work.. shoot a ton of textures & overlay images that we can use in our business.. see the tip of the iceberg of some different parts of the world.. and figure out what we would like to go back and explore further the next time.

All in all it was an awesome trip and we will see what 2010 brings our way.

~V