Other Views of the Spanish Steps

I learned that the azaleas are in honor of Rome's birthday as a City, on April 21st and that they have bloomed a bit early this year. The obelisk (THAT was the word I was trying to think of yesterday) is from Egypt. There were 9, 6 small like this one and 3 large like the one from Piazza di Popoloi yesterday. They were funeral monuments for various Pharohs and were incorporated into Roman monuments centuries later.

The second photo is from the top of the steps looking down.

Lyra really is in the backpack and still sleeping. Everyone kept saying what a good baby she was. She is a good baby but really it was in the middle of the night for her and so she slept.