I am a little slow, but still continuing the posts about Rome!
After the papal audience we went to the Vatican Museum. A few words to sum it up: very crowded. We learned that on Wednesdays
the cruise ships come into town so there were thousands of people for that, as
well as for the papal audience. It was the wrong day to go to really take your time and enjoy it, although we are thankful we were able to go at all.
I had no idea what to expect and obviously pictured the various museums I have been in throughout my life. Well, this was very different. It was huge! The museum takes you through tons of rooms and goes in one
direction so you have to go the way they tell you (we tried to bypass some rooms but it didn't work.)
The museum ends in the Sistine
Chapel, and since we wanted to see that, we had to go through every other room
first. The Sistine Chapel is called the “heart and
soul of the Vatican” and it was beautiful (even though it was packed, noisy, and dark.)
After that we had time to grab a quick pick-me-up. I had
chocolate gelato, Tyler had cappuccino, Jeff had a beer, and Barb had an
espresso.
It worked, because 20 minutes later we had enough energy to go on a
30 minute walk to another Church for a prayer service for the family and
friends of the seminarians preparing for ordination. It was beautiful. There
was adoration and confessions and it was a very blessed time. Here's the group outside the church.
Then we ate againJ
We went to a fun restaurant and had pizza. They served a delicious appetizer of
bruschetta and then everyone got a single pizza of their choice, the size of a
large plate. It wasn’t as much food as we have had the other nights, but still plenty!
Again we
got gelato on the way back to the hotel! It was delicious. I had chocolate and a
creamy berry sorbet. Tyler had chocolate and banana.
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