Day 23- Villa Borghese and Museo dei Bambini

 The weather was good again today, so we visited Villa Borghese (a giant park with multiple playgrounds) on our way to the children's museum.  The big kids took turns helping Penny practice her walking around the apartment before we left.

The park is several kilometers wide with a mix of forest, open fields, and various buildings.  Jasper and Daddy played soccer golf, where Jasper picked a far away tree and tried to guess how many kicks it would take him to hit it.  The other kids went from playground to playground, and we gradually worked our way from one side of the park to the other.

Grandpa skipped the park to try to get in to a tour of something in the Vatican City that is usually very busy.  The Pope was chilling on his front steps, so there were lots of people and no chance of getting in, but he did get to see the real live Pope (he looks shorter in person than he does on TV).

The children's museum was nice, but we only got a 2 hour time slot to fit everything in, so each kid split up with a grown up and raced through their favourite parts.  This place included the mandatory pretend grocery store and farm that every single children's museum in the world has, plus some unique features like a cooperative ball movement game and a fun pneumatic tube scarf mover.

There was a small zip line swing outside the museum that we ripped around on for a while before getting some ice cream from McDonalds. Traditional Italian supper of cheeseburgers and french fries.