Segway tour of ancient Rome!

Can you believe it!!! We did a three hour tour(not to be confused with the Gilligan's Island one)of ancient Rome on segways. All the men in my family were delighted when we walked up to the Segway store. It only took about 2 minutes for us all to figure out how to ride them. We rode them through crowds, up and down the cobblestone streets and all around the Colosseum!! Carson and Forrest said they never got bored riding the segways. Come to think of it....I didn't either!!  Oh, on our way to meeting up with the segway group we ran into this authentic roman century, so we had to have pictures taken.

We not only saw the Colosseum but also Arc of Titus, the Arc of Constantine, the rose gardens, the Trojans forum, and Palantine Hill. There is truly so much to take in because you are literally surrounded by history. I wish that I would have brushed up a little on my Roman history because I think that I would have gotten more out of our tour. I think this is a place you need to see twice or spend at least a week just in Rome. We are on the 'fast track' sight-seeing vacation. Maybe my boys will bring me back one day with my grandchildren!! :-)

The best thing that happened all day though, had to be when we were up around the ancient Roman Circus. This wedding couple parked along where we had stopped to get out and take pictures. Well, guess what they wanted to do first?!?! They wanted to get the photographer to take a picture of them with our Segway group. I will post the one we took after the wedding couple took theirs. It was pretty funny because everywhere we went, people seemed to be more interested in the Segways than all the history surrounding them!

Needless to say, I am a little disappointed because my mobile upload of pictures to my blog is not working. I'm sorry you can't see the cool pictures of us in our helmets! I only brought the iPad with me so I don't have a any other way to upload the pics. You will just have to create in your own mind what my crew might look like standing in front of the colosseum with helmets on! I even took a picture just for Hardy of me and a REAL LIVE ancient roman guard....well, he was at least 70! Sorry Hardy!

We leave for our 1 1/2 day trip to Venice tomorrow at 8:45!! I hope that I don't wear everybody out too quickly. They are all napping right now and am just reading my book 'born to shop Italy'!!

Ciao