Thank you! I'm really enjoying documenting this adventure with my mom.

We were exhausted after our Colosseum tour, so we headed back to the hotel. On our way we stopped at restaurant for an early dinner. We enjoyed pasta, bruschetta, bread with oil & vinegar and sparkling water.

The hypogeum (literally meaning “underground”) was a later addition to the Colosseum. It consisted of a two-level subterranean network of tunnels and cages beneath the arena where gladiators and animals were held before contest began. It was connected by tunnels to a number of points outside the...

It's all in the pictures and the templates! Very little embellishment needed.

I really like how you told this story by adding the ephemera

I love the colors - makes the photo look like fantasy place.

I love how your photo is framed

This is a beautiful page.

I love what you did with the frames.

Thank you so much. :)

The Colosseum represents Rome at its grandest. The arena hosted spectacular public entertainments, such as gladiator fights, wild animal hunts and public executions from AD 80 to AD 404. The Colosseum is four stories, 160 feet high and covers six acres. The stadium could accommodate 50,000...

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Love the cluster an use of frames.

Wow! Thank you so much. It's so much fun to scrap a vacation.

This arch stands between the Colosseum and the Forum, commemorating a military coup and the acceptance of Christianity by the Roman Empire. When Emperor Constantine defeated his rival Maxentius in AD 312, Constantine became sole emperor of the Roman Empire and legalized Christianity.

The breakfast buffet was included at our hotel. Due to COVID-19 we were not able to serve ourselves. We were able to point to what we wanted, and the servers put the food on our plate. It was a little cool on the roof but not too bad. There was plenty to choose from at the buffet. We had eggs...

We randomly chose the restaurant Bierreria Albrecht. We had to show our CDC vaccination cards to get into the restaurant. We both ordered pizza. Kathy ordered the cheese pizza with a cooked egg on top. This was very nostalgic because this was the pizza she always ordered when living in Paris.