Roma - Day Two and Three (condensed and a little out of order)

I just realized that i forgot to finish the last couple of days i was in Rome. So here goes... Day two we went to the Vatican and the Vatican Museum which was amazing. it was huge and had so many amazing and detailed paintings, frescoes, ceilings, floors, well, every inch is pretty much detailed and amazing there. my favorite part were the ceilings which were so awesome and colorful and detailed beyond imagination. it was awesome. we even saw the sistine chapel which was fully painted with some of the most famous paintings in the world, like the creation of man and the last judgement. but we werent allowed to take pictures in there so that was a bummer. From the museum, we went to St. Peter's which is the biggest church i have ever seen/been in. It looks big on tv and from a ways away, but when you get up close and inside, it is Huge beyond belief! and of course inside it was very amazing and detailed and huge. We even got to go down stairs and see a lot of the tombs of deceased popes, and we saw Pope John Paul II's tomb which was pretty amazing. So day two was really amazing and beautiful!
Day three we walked around Rome and visited various churches by two main guys... Borromini and Bernini. All the churches were really Gawdy and detailed. it was interesting and cool to see them all. We also saw one of my favorite places in Rome, the Fountain de Trevi which is this amazing huge fountain that is kind of on the side of the building. it was awesome. then we stopped by this other small fountain where there was this crazy italian hobo guy sitting there and he had a tree branch in one hand and was yelling at our whole group (there were over 100 of us there) and i guess he was calling all of the girls bad names and stuff like that. it was kind of entertaining. he would dance around and make funny poses for pictures. then he would drink out of the fountain and spit it out in our direction. it was pretty interesting... then we went inside this "Bone church" which was really really creepy but interesting at the same time. it was made entirely out of bones and skeletons and every bone in the human body. i will have to show you a picture it is so weird. i guess they used the bones of over 4,000 monks! it was really creepy. then we went back to the Spanish Steps which was the expensive shopping district and looked in Prada and Gucci stores which were ridiculously expensive.
The day we left we got up early and got packed and took a bus back to St. Peter's to get blessed by the pope! there were so many people there and it was so hot. but we waited and then the pope came out and blessed us! it was a pretty cool experience. then it was off to Florence where i am living and going to school.

Me, Patricia, and Rebecca at St. Peter's...


Pope John Paul II's tomb...


Pope Benedict XVI giving his blessing from the Papal Apartment...