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Arrived in Roma April 10, 2000 and met up with the Malcalm/Camp families. Shown here are Dave and Shelley Malcolm, Linda Hughes, Eva and Jeff Camp. I sent this picture as an attachment to and e-mail and got it back from Matt Gilbert with the following comments:

Dave: Dah, which way'd he go Gearoge???

Shelley: Is that him up there?

Linda: No, I think he's voer hereŠ

Eva: Who are these people and who are they looking for?

Jeff: Just smile honey and maybe they'll go away?!?

A little dark for pictures, but we all has diner at a small restaurant across from the condo in Piazza Novona	Alec demanded a little attention on occasion.

Every restaurant was a picture post card by itself	Typical street in old Roma (center of the city). 3 million people. You had to have a special permit to be allowed to drive a car inside a 12-mile radius of city center. Most people walked or had a scooter.

Linda and Bob at the Coliseums

Dave and Shelley Malcolm, Linda Hughes, Eva and Jeff Camp

We had a third floor, four bedroom, three-bath condo overlooking the Pizza Novona (shown here). Our unit was located in the top floor of the building dead center of this picture.	A 15-minute walk from our condo was the Vatican. This is a view of the street leading to the Vatican and Saint Peter's Basilica (with dome).

Typical Car. Helps to have small cars.	A new Citroen van. not sold in the USA

Very impressive to walk through the Basilica and learn about the creation of the Roman Catholic church. One on the more prominent status was of St. Peter (the Apostle Peter).	Artwork in the Basilica is not particularly note worthy except for this one Michelangelo sculpture (which was attached by a man with an axe in 1972 and is now been restored and protected behind thick glass).

No, this is not the Sistine Chapel. They don't let you take pictures in there. This is the entry to the Sistine Chapel, which stretched for about 500 yards. packed with history.	Map Room- Entry to Sistine Chapel Hundreds of maps going back to Roman times. Interesting to see what the "known" world looked like over time. The Pacific Northwest of America was where the mapmakers put their logo as recent as the 1600. It was totally unknown...

Ceiling in all the rooms leading in and out of the Sistine Chapel had fresco paintings. Here are two examples. There were three or four paintings like this in each room and hundreds of rooms.	The Vatican Museum is the worlds largest with 1400 rooms. What is contained there is not necessarily as much "great works" as it is a collection of historical artifacts. Would take about four days to walk through all the rooms.

We went out to get desert after diner one night and came back with three

Gelatos (Italian ice cream). Here Jennie Gilbert is about to bite into a Chocolate Chip Mint cone

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