Act II, Scene 1: Our heroes face a difficult obstacle

At night we went to eat in the area near Piazza Navona again, which has lots and lots of great restaurants with acceptable prices, before heading back to the hotel. First we checked around Campo d'fiori (or so) but it was really crowded there with more of a bar scene than restaurants. All the outside tables were already taken though. Before going out to eat we headed back to the hotel after visiting the Museum of contemporary and modern art. That translates to art from the 19th century and younger. We were so lucky too. While proceeding to works up to the 1950s, it started to rain. Not just a little bit of friendly rain either, but a full-blown thunderstorm. If we would have been outside, it would have soaked us completely. The museum was set up so that different periods were together and you would walk fom the oldest to the youngest work. One sculpture that I particularly enjoyed was Canova's "Ercole e Lica", which is rather large and the picture doesn't do it justice. Heck, here is the one I took, not much better, but maybe you can sense the agony on Lica's face a little better (he's the one getting thrown around):

Hey, good way to try out the new Blogger feature too, but I have a feeling I will stick to my old way. More control over picture size and stuff.
The bathrooms in the museum were hidden, but displayed the Romans' apparent joy in washing their feet. Though some say bidets are used for a different part of the anatomy. Right! When we went into the museum, we were told that the part of the museum hosting work from after 1950 was closed, because they were setting up an exhibition until Thursday. We went in anyway.
On the way to the museum we walked through a park that the Romans use to hang out in. They were having picnics and playing volleyball and stuff. To get to the museum we took a bus from somewhere close to the Pantheon, and changed into the Metro. Before that we had ice-cream again, at this place recommended to us the night before. They had a huge selection, and it tasted excellent as well. My conclusion is, that ice-cream seems to be great anywhere you go in Rome, but places will have different numbers of varieties. On our stroll to the ice-cream place we looked at sights on the way and took some time to go shopping.