Did you know that Pope Francis is the 266th pope? I think most of the others are buried in St. Peter's. Well, really, the present St. Peter's was built in the 1500s and the popes before then who had been buried in the old St. Peter's were moved. Some popes are said to be buried in various and sundry other churches...not sure anyone knows where all the bodies are.
St. Peter's defies description. It is really that beautiful. And it is so huge! Hard to even take pictures that begin to do it justice.
After St. Peter's we took the metro over to the train station. We were going to buy tickets to go to Florence for the day tomorrow but the train station was a nightmare. We waited in a long line to find out we had to wait in another long line so we made the executive decision that Florence would just have to wait for another trip!
We stopped by the Cipro station (we've gotten good at this Metro thing) and had lunch at a restaurant that Jerry and Lori had discovered after church last Sunday. Then we had a gelato on the way to the bus stop. We've gotten good at the buses too...but it just takes so long to get anywhere and you still have to walk a lot and the stairs!!!!
When we got home two days of planning had come together. We are taking a private tour of Trivoli on Saturday and a private tour of St. Peter's on Monday. Each of the tours should just be the 3 of us and the guide, so they should be great.
Tomorrow we are going to the Castle st. Angelo.
Enjoy the pics.
These two nuns cut in front of us in the long line to go through security! We were about half way in the line! They were just tourists like us BUT I guess they thought the habit meant they didn't have to wait in line!
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