イタリア旅行
Our Roman vacation. |
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2004年5月10日-18日 |
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静香:家族３人で初めて飛行機で旅行をしました。行き先はローマ。良い天候にも恵まれ、日焼け止めを使わなかったクリスは一日で真っ赤になるほど焼けてしまいました。
事前に私達の友人の洋子さん＆JINさんに約束どおり会うことも出来て一緒にコロッセオ等を観光することが出来ました。
3時間毎の授乳とオムツ換えは少し大変でしたが、かえってゆっくりとした速度で観光をすることが出来たので良かったです。 |
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Chris: Look, we're
in Italy! 8 days in Rome with a 3 month old infant! Doesn't that sound
like a great idea? It does?
You must not have kids,
then...
Actually, it was a
great time. We just had to take everything a little slower. Saya eats
and gets her diaper changed every 3 hours, which pretty much set the
schedule for everything we did. On top of that, her bedtime is 8:30 -
and we learned from our trip to Bonn to not mess with the bedtime - so
every night we went to the hotel early, and put her to bed and then were
*really quiet* until we went to sleep. We caught up on our reading
though, and with all the guidebook reading I got in I made a great tour
guide...
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The Forum. This massive ruin is right in the middle of
the city and goes on for like a kilometer in every direction. And they
just open up the gates and let you stroll around in them. |
A cat next to one of the statues outside of Nero's baths,
which were closed because they were using them for an exhibit on Armani.
You must admit - that's strange. |
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That croissant on the table is the *worst* croissant I
have ever tried to eat. In fact, all the food we found in Italy other
than the ice cream was a complete let down. But I guess nothing lives up
to the hype... But the ice cream was good, and
we ate it by the gallon, I am afraid. That and we found an incredible
pastry shop, and developed a habit of loading up on pastries and gorging
ourselves in the hotel after Saya went to sleep. Bad us. |
Yep. Pizza. We had a lot of pizza. There was on place we
would take out and eat in the hotel after putting Saya to bed that had a
waiter that could say the Japanese alphabet really fast for some reason,
and who kept calling himself "Super Mario". You know, I can't make this
stuff up. BTW: Shizuka tells me that I always
make that face when I eat. Why she has not left me yet, I simply do not
know.. |
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The fountain of Trevi. Strangely, it is just a fountain
and yet it is also as cool as they say it is. |
The ceiling of the Vatican museum, which must be one of
the coolest museums ever built. However, Saya has yet to develop a taste
for the fine arts, and cried thorough the whole thing, forcing us to go
a little faster than we wanted. Of course, she fell asleep the minute we
left. Shizuka and I have this belief that she just doesn't like
churches, cause she cries every time she is in one. Go figure. |
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They have this hall full of maps of Italy that is
extremely cool. It goes on for like 200 yards of massive wall-sized
ancient maps. Elsewhere are bunches of massive wall sized maps of the
world as the church understood it through the ages - very cool. |
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Again with the Imperial forum. Cool rubble. It would be a
dump if it wasn't 2000 years old. |
You know, Rome actually looks mostly like this, which is
cool. It is a very loud, dirty city, but it is loud and dirty in a fun
way, not a bad way. And everywhere you go, you turn the corner and there
is some 2000 year old fountain, or 1000 year old cathedral. I mean
everywhere. It would take a dozen lifetimes to actually see it all
meaningfully, so we just strolled around and didn't even really try to
figure out what most of it was.. |
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We met our friends Jin and Yoko while we were there and
traipsed around Rome for a day with them. They were on the 4 cities in
10 days massive attack Italian plan, so we were only up to their "just
off the plane and seriously jetlagged" speed. The next day, they moved
into high gear and went to more places in a day than we did in a week.In
this picture, they haven't slept for like 48 hours. |
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Oh, yea, that's the Coliseum behind us. It is as cool as
all that. I mean, people were eaten by lions for sport back there. Eaten
by lions for sport. You just can't buy entertainment like that anymore. |
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