Saturday we had a major disappointment.  Something was going on in the Pantheon and we couldn’t even get close to the doors.  However, before that happened a few of us went to visit the Mouth of Truth which is supposed to bite off a dishonest persons hand.  It was fun and we got to see more parts of Rome, including a surviving Pagan statue of Triton.

At 3:15 we met up with Devon and he took us on our tour, we saw a few fountains and five of the seven Obelisks of Ancient Rome.  I learned that when people create a statue on a fountain, if the are depicting a river they will create a human but then place an object unique to that river on the fountain. For example, the Tigris would have a tiger and the Nile would have a pyramid.  After this was when we were supposed to see the Pantheon but didn’t.  It just means that one of these days we will have to return to Rome.

In order to make up the time we would have spent at the Pantheon Devon took us to a lot of churches.  From this point you could really see that he used to be in theology training as a Monk.  I can’t say a lot about what we saw because all the churches started to run together in my mind and I couldn’t differentiate between them.

After that we went to the Spanish Steps, which I am super glad we didn’t have to climb because I was exhausted from all the walking and step climbing from previous days.  The street venders selling things at the Spanish Steps were extremely rude and forceful.  They were forcefully stuffing roses into the hands of people and chasing down couples.  It was amusing to watch.