On Saturday, we left our hostel at 9:45am. We had to check out and pack everything up to take with us since we had to move hostels that day. We walked to St. Peter's and waited in line for 1 hour and 15 minutes to get in to see the Basilica. We checked our bags with a cute Vatican guy and went in to the Basilica. The 7 sacraments were depicted on the doors, which was very cool. We also saw a statue that a man destroyed part of Mary's nose and fingers with a hammer in the 70s so now it is under glass. We saw the altar where Pope John Paul II's body will be put when it is exhumed on May 1. We also saw the guards march, which was pretty cool. The inside of St. Peter's was huge and it was GORGEOUS! We also had an opportunity to pray in a chapel for about 5 minutes before it closed which was really neat. Lizzy and I climbed 551 steps to the top of the dome to look out over the city. I bought some rosaries and we got a drink of water from the fountain outside of the gift shop (we have lots of pictures of this). We also walked through the Tombs of the Popes again. Each had a little placard about their life. It is crazy that some only served for like 22 or 31 days! We saw JP II's grave again and this time there were lots of notes, pictures, and many more flowers on it. We saw an Italian priest here that we ran into the next day on the metro. He was a father-what-a-waste if you know what I mean ;)
Outside of the basilica, Lizzy tried to take an artys picture of people taking pictures of the Vatican guards but they put down their cameras too fast...awkward! We walked to our new hostel and the owner took literally 5 minutes of attempting to buzz us in before it finally worked. Our room was huge and even had a table with chairs and a mini fridge. Our hostel actually turned out to be a bit sketch...the other people staying there were smoking pot in the bathroom and it was really dirty. But, we made it through and at least we only had to be there one night!
We metroed to the Trevi Fountain area and walked to the Pantheon. Funny story. So I said in my earlier post that we went to the Pantheon...or so we thought! We actually saw the City Hall which we thought was the Pantheon because we were reading the map wrong...it only took us like one day to figure this out haha. The real Pantheon was much older like we expected and was conveniently located by the Giolitti gelateria from the day before so we went back again! When in Rome, right? I got oreo, banana, and strawberry this time. We had supper at a restaurant. Lizzy and I ordered pesto and got a Lady and the Tramp picture. We also saw this CUTE baby girl who we named tourist baby because she would point to things in the stores as her parents pushed her in her stroller. After dinner, we went back to the hostel and went to sleep around 10:15pm. Early, I know, but we had to be up very early to get to Psalm Sunday Mass the next day.
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