Thu 2.8 In which we are basically toads.

When I was first planning all this, I thought I was being pretty conservative with the activities, knowing that the girls would tire of things faster than I would. I was right about the tiring faster, but wrong about what constitutes “conservative” in this case. We’ve overdone on more than one occasion. So today was pretty nearly entirely a snooze/watch tv/not do anything much sort of a day, and we all needed it. Rose and I did get inspired briefly and went down the block to Santa Maria dei Angeli e Martiri, Michaelangelo’s last project, to convert the Baths of Diocletion into a very magnificent church. It was finally finished in the early 1700s, and so was VERY grand and covered in Shtuff, but I wanted to see more of the Roman base for the church, and we never got as far as the section of the Terme that’s still the ancient building. I feel like I’ve lost so much time here, but between the insane heat and the girls just not having the interest or stamina, it’s probably just as well. I am also tired of pizza. The girls only like cheese pizza and I haven’t found any other combo that I’m excited about, so we’ve eaten a lot of margheritas (and not the nice tequila-y kind, which might have been soothing after a few of these very tiring outings!).