Vatican City!

Just a side note before I begin... I am really glad to see all the comments, wellwishings and so on that everyone is leaving... Are our travels that boring?

Anyways, this morning Eric woke me up at an unholy hour to go see the holy city. We left the hostel just after 9 and headed to the Vatican Museum. We stood in the longest line we have ever stood in in our whole lives for about 1 1/2 hours before we got in. It was packed, grossly packed, with people. It takes forever to get to the Sistine Chapel, but my favorite part is probably the mummy in the Egyptian room. I couldnt stop looking at her. She is so well preserved. You can still tell what she looked like. So creepy. After the long walk and listening into other peoples tours we got to the Sistine Chapel, which is very nice, but I stop short of saying amazing.

After that we went to a little pizza place by the Vatican, it was very good. I had amazing oven potatoes there. Then we entered another insanly long line to get into St. Peters Basilica. That place is amazingly huge and intracate. It is pretty cool. Then we walked in the tomb of the Pope's and saw Jean Paul II's grave. They guys went all the way up to the dome, 551 steps, and I went shopping for souveniers. I didn't buy much though, but it was fun. Then we came back to the hostel, had pasta for supper, and now we are at the laundomat waiting for our laundry. You can only handwash for so long before something needs a good machine cleaning. Tonight we are going to go hang out at Piazza Navona, where there used to be a staduim that they filled with water and held mock naval battles, to hang out. Tomorrow we are doing odds and ends things that we haven't seen yet. Like the bones of 4000 monks and the christian catacombs and 28 steps that Jesus walked on! They were steps that were brought here from somewhere by some dude's mom, not sure where from exactly, but they were steps to Pontuis Pilate's house and Jesus walked on them the day of his sentancing. SO COOL! Some Catholics climb these stairs on their knees and say prayers off of little cards...but I'm not Catholic, so I am going to walk them just like Jesus did!