After such a great day in Rome before, we were so excited for day two! We woke up really early and met our tour group for the Vatican around 8 am. Now, I specifically packed two pairs of tights to wear with this skirt I had planned on wearing. In the Vatican, you need to have your knees and shoulders covered and since the day before was so warm, a skirt seemed perfect. Well, rushing out I completely forgot the most important part...the tights. We get alllll the way to the tour company, where the JERK (terrible shout out, "enjoy Rome") starts to say things to me like " you are going to the Vatican, not the beach!" super uncalled for and actually made me really upset. I wasn't trying to be disrespectful, I was just rushed and forgot. Well, a 4 hour tour later, I'm walking around with a jackets tied around my legs. I could only take steps a few inches long but I did it.
The Vatican was bigger and more gorgeous than I remembered. We saw all of the museums, galleries, and finished with the Sistine chapel. My favorite story was how the Vatican has only been closed one day since 1929, the day Hitler wanted to come visit, the pope locked him out. Awesome.
The tour was over around 12 and we had an hour or so to go home and change, eat, and then meet at the Excavations office for our tour of the Necropolis. Basically St. Peter's Basilica has three levels (one for a cemetery of pageons, one being the original St. Peter's built by Constantine, and the last being the one that is there today. In the second level, we saw St. peter's tomb and his remains. Completely weird and completely amazing at the me time. The things that are under the Basilica date back before Christ, Rome is full of history that just blew us away. After the Necropolis tour was over, we were left to explore the Basilica which had been closed that morning due to a private service for a cardinal. Ryan's face was priceless. It is so powerful and overwhelming I don't think we said two words to each other.
Well, to Ryan's great excitement we next went to see the inside of the Colosseum and getting there close to closing was probably the best idea we've had all trip. It was quiet and felt like we had the place all to ourselves. Tomorrow we take a bus to see Pompeii and have our last night in Rome before heading off to Florence!
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