Roma, Italy - Trastevere, Piazza Navona (again)

We took Duman’s advice and checked out two neat churches just around the corner from our hotel: Sant'Ignazio di Loyola and Santa Maria sopra Minerva. The former has a couple “optical illusions”—a painted “curved” nave ceiling and a fake dome. The latter is the only Gothic church in Roma and has a Michelangelo sculpture that we forgot to see!
Later went to the Villa Farnesina but it was already closed for the day, so we just walked around Trastevere, crossed the Isola Tiberina and looked at (but didn’t wait in line to touch) the Buca di Verita at Santa Maria Cosmedin. We got ripped off by a pretty lady taxi driver who took us to Piazza della Repubblica instead of Piazza della Rotonda. She claimed she didn’t know where the Pantheon was. Sheesh. On the plus side, we never paid the bus fare to get to Piazza Venetia (need to buy your bus tickets BEFORE boarding) so it was probably all a wash getting back to the hotel.

We finally succumbed to the kids' requests for caricatures so we did it before dinner at the Piazza Navona. Then we had Fettucini Alfredo at the place the supposedly invented it: Alfredo alla Scrofa. It was good and we can say we did it, but at 20 Euros and a small portion, definitely not a good value.
After sampling various gelati places all over Italy, tonight Della Palma in Roma was officially declared the winner by Team Chen. Again, many thanks to Duman for his recommendations!