But at any rate here is a quick run down of today! I am heading to Toscana for the weekend on a school trip! It shall be lots of fun! I can't wait! And to see another city will be great!
There is so much information from the museums! I will write more after this weekend! I have about 300 pictures from today to choose from and go through! It's so hard to pick! Little fun fact that we learned on the tour today...If a person were to stop and look at every single piece of work in the Vatican museum for approximately 60 seconds, it would take them 12 years to get through everything in the museum! It's so overwhelming and by the time you get the Sistine Chapel, which is at the end, you are so ready to see some walls that don't have every single inch decorated in some way! Don't get me wrong! It was beautiful!! They don't allow anyone to take pictures inside the Chapel in order to preserve the artwork! So don't be getting your hopes up for pictures from that!
After the tour officially ended we decided that we wanted to go walk around St. Peter's Basilica. This took us to waiting in line to climb just over 500 stairs up to the top! What a breathtaking view over the entire city!! We hurried to get our pictures and make it back down the spiral staircase to mass in the basilica.
That was a neat experience! Hearing it all in Italian was music to my ears! By the time we got to mass and sat down we realized what a long day it had been! Ha ha We headed back home after taking a few pictures and going to mass. Made a quick dinner of shrimp, bowtie pasta, and a garlic white wine olive oil sautee mix! It was delicious!
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| The entrance to where Pope Ben (Yes we are on a first name basis here!) lives today!! |
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