Today was an exciting day filled with excitement and relaxation. I started out the day when a group of us, including Professor Wears, headed off towards the Vatican. It was surprisingly easy to get there because all we had to do was to take the metro. Once we got there we quickly jumped into the line in order to enter Saint Peter’s basilica. The line to enter the basilica was surprisingly short and we were able to fly through it in only a couple of minutes. After security we were able to enter the basilica. It was a spectacular sight to see once you entered. It was neat to see how large everything was, we heard from a tour that some of the letters in the ceiling were really twelve feet tall, and it was neat to see all of the monuments that were inside of it. The one downside to this being the Vatican though is that it was extremely crowded and this means that it was a bit of a pain to navigate through all of the tourists in order to get some photos. This is kind of random but I do want to mention that my camera has been on the fritz between yesterday and today so I’m truly hoping that all of my photos are coming out alright and I will be investigating this issue in further detail once I get back to the states. After taking a quick tour throughout the basilica, because you could spend all day there, we decided to climb all of the steps, all 501 steps, to the top of the basilica. It was a painstaking and sweaty process but it was fun to climb to the top. Once we got to the top it was shocking at how amazing the view was. You could see all of the Vatican from the top and if not most to all of Rome from the top of the basilica. What is photographed above is one of the many panoramas from the top of the basilica. After catching our breaths at the top we climbed back down. We then grabbed a quick bite to eat outside of the Vatican and then I headed back to the hotel because I was having an allergy attack. After taking a little nap a few of us made pasta and ate dinner in again. After talking to my family on Skype, I’m now writing this and soon I will hit the sac again.
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