Day 13

Day thirteen

Michelangelo's Moses statue

At last, The Spanish Steps

Eva posing with Swiss Guard

Long lines at the Vatican

We ate and drove back into Rome and  to the top of the Spanish Steps which Cherie and I were determined to climb because we have missed this on our other trips here. We were able to locate a rare parking space. This too was very crowded. Then we drove to the Vatican and walked around. There were lines over one and a half hours long to get into  St Peters basilica. We decided not to go in and just walked around outside. Finally we ate in a restaurant near by. We picked up the car and then drove around Rome looking for signs of the ancient roman aqueducts but couldn't find any. We did however finding additional ruins at various places around Rome. We drove back to the hotel and took a nap and then drove to a mall to see a movie - but we had difficulty locating the theaters and were 20 minutes late by the time we found it. Upon inquiry we discovered that the two movies we wanted to see, "The Great Gatsby" and "Iron man III" were both in Italian. When did Italian movie theaters modernize?  They used to show all movies in English with Italian subtitles!  We went into the mall instead and looked for food and for an English bookstore since Cherie needed something to read on the plane (see day one).  We ate at Burger King and could not find books.  This was one frustrating evening!