Vatican Trip

Ciao!

Just a quick summary of yesterday: I got to sleep in a little, and ended up going to school early. I met up with a girl and we decided to get gelato (what a surprise!). Afterwards, I was still hungry and got a slice of pizza. I then had my Italian class (which I often want to call my Spanish class!) and headed back to my home-stay. My friend and I decided not to go out so I basically hung out at my place, made myself dinner, and caught up on some American tv.

Today, I woke up at 7 am, had my biscuits (chocolate cookies, really, I don't know how the Italians get away with calling it breakfast!) and headed out the door. After the bus ride, it took me 45 minutes to walk to the Vatican. Once there, our professor gave us a tour of the museum which houses much of the world's most famous art, such as Michelangelo's Sistene Chapel and Raphael's School of Athens. No pictures were allowed in the Chapel ofcourse, but I took them everywhere else. Down below I'll include a few.

She told us about some of the Popes and what they'd commissioned and went into a little bit about the Borgias, which rang a bell. I soon realized my dad watched some show about them, and sure enough the professor said a lot of people know about them from a television show. Go figure.

Anyways, I walked back around 11:30, found a grocery store to get some sandwich fixings, and headed back for lunch on the terrace of my apartment. As of now, I am packing for Spain and doing some homework before I go. By tonight, I'll have been in three countries in one day (the Vatican is the smallest country in the world, by the way!).

Ci vediamo!

 St. Peter's

 Famous Pine Cone

 Ancient statues in the halls of the museum

 Even the floors of the museum are beautiful.

 This statue still has it eyes, which were usually made of ivory or bones. All the statues used to have them.

 A tapestry of Jesus rising from the dead.

 Raphael's the School of Athens

 The Pope's room which had a ceiling decorated with the Zodiac.

Outside the Vatican