Great view from on top of the Terminillo.

The kids loved the Ferrari store and wished we could bring one home.

Brad, Mitzi, and Ian waiting for the girls to finish some shopping.

We all had to throw coins over our shoulders into the Trevi fountain. Hopefully we'll all get the chance to come back to Rome again someday.

Kindra and Mitzi looking around in the Pantheon.

We had a fabulous sunset as we drove back to the place we were staying.
6-22-10 Tuesday
I did a great ride this morning up to Terminillo. This is a ski resort that was the end of one of the stages in the Giro d’Italia this year. It was pretty similar to say Big Cottonwood Canyon in time, but more like Little Cottonwood in steep non relenting grade. Up the Terminillo I avg. 8.2 mph for 1 hour 10 minutes. In the Big Cottonwood Hill climb last year, I avg. 14.2 mph for about the same time. Doing the Snowbird hillclimb, from the mouth of the canyon to Snowbird, I avg. 8.6 mph for only 43 minutes. It was a great climb mostly all covered by trees, but as you got to the top, it had fantastic views over the countryside below. It was very chilly coming down though as I was soaking wet from working up a sweat, and it was only about 48 degrees.
We went back into Rome in the afternoon and were hoping to catch the free walking tour I found online that takes you around the city. We parked near a Ferrari/Maserati store, and the kids really liked the sweet cars. Ian has really become a Ferrari lover. The free walking tour was supposed to meet near the Spanish Steps, but we couldn’t find them when we got there. We decided to do our own walking tour of downtown Rome. We saw the Spanish Steps, the Trevi Fountain, the Pantheon, the Piazza Navona, and a bunch of interesting churches and fountains, and of course had some gelato as well. On the way back we had a great sunset. We had a great day in Rome seeing the sites.