Rome Friday July 6th

Wowow is all I can say about today.

Started off kind of rocky...didn't sleep very well last night cause it was so hot! We walked to Vatican City, guess I can check another country off my list. It was a pretty far walk but it was cool to stumble upon beautiful sites (though I wish I knew what they were!)

We arrived at Vatican City and I was awestruck by the massiveness and beauty of St Peter's and St Peter's square. We had printed tickets before hand so we went right through to the Vatican museum (while being haggled by umbrella and shawl sellers, and tour guides!)

The museum was pretty sick, my favorite part would have to be the room of the maps of Italy. It was 120 meters long and the ceiling was insane. Every room had crazy old statues and paintings but my mind kept drifting to the Sistine Chapel. We finally arrived and my breath was taken away. It was supppper crowded but luckily I found a spot to sit (to listen to my Rick Steve's podcast!) and sneakily snag some pictures. Everyone had their cameras out and it was so loud in there cause the guards had to keep yelling at people to not take pictures and to be quiet. Pretty tough job! The podcast was clutch, he explained every part of the ceiling and Last Judgement painting and described how Michelangelo did it. Too sick to say I've seen it.

We moved onto St. Peter's which was, in my opinion, even more amazing. I've always been so fascinated by churches and this was soooo big! I was wearing a dress with a shawl and was worried about it being a littol too short but luckily the guards just told me to pull it down. That would've sucked if I couldn't have seen it! Again we had a podcast that explained everything. Even explained that Pope John XXIII's body is on display in a glass case...so creepy. Definitely recommend downloading podcast for any city you visit to save money!

By then it was 3:30 and we hadn't eaten since 9am so we found a cheap lunch place. We headed to the Pantheon and listened to our podcast for it. Wowow is all I gotta say. Pretty amazing engineering! Can't believe it.

After we walked to the Spanish Steps to go to the Keats and Shelley museum, 2 English poets who lived in Rome. I found a purse I've wanted for awhile now along the way which was a great find.

We walked back to our hostel to chill for a bit, literally like it was over 90 degrees all day...I felt so over heated!
We walked to find dinner and stopped at this precious place that was cheap as well. Finally got my glass of wine in Italy!

We continued on to the Colosseum, even though we're going tomorrow, we wanted to see it at night. Amazzzing. All the ruins here are too surreal like I don't believe they're real and that I'm here.

Off to bed, long day in the sun tomorrow and our last day in Rome! Way too quick of a trip but very thankful I could see it.
I'm hoping for a better night sleep...may take a sleeping pill to aid that...

Love and miss y'all!

Ciao,
Whit

P.S. forgot to mention yesterday that we saw a proposal at the Trevi Fountain last night! Way too precious, everyone was clapping so luckily she said yes! Kinda hard to top!