Last weekend in Roma!

Friday was by far our longest day. We got up early in the morning for a tour with Ruggero around Rome. We went to the Piazza del Popolo, the first Church of England in Rome, the Spanish Steps, a french church and the Crypt of the Capuchin monks. Quite the long tour for just one morning. The Cappucini crypt was definitely the strangest of everything we saw. It's a crypt where some monk hundreds of years ago had the bright idea to dig up all the graves of old monks and make Christian art out of the bones. The entire crypt is just lined with heads, spines, femurs, you name it, all in artful positioning (see picture above). After that we went to get lunch near the Trevi fountain where I had Vodka Spaghetti (the same one Steph had last year that she still raves about). It was quite delicious. After Lunch we walked to the Vatican for an afternoon tour of the museums, on the way getting gelato from my favorite place (but they were out of blood orange gelato:(! ) Then Ruggero gave us a tour of the Vatican museums, saw the Sistine Chapel, Raphael's rooms, the old Roman statues, and their current missions in Australia rooms. Very interesting to see. After the museum tour we went to the grocery store to get snacks because we were watching the Godfather II that night. The movie was good, but definitely not as good as the first movie. After the movie we went and hung out at the boys apartment, playing games and just chilling until late in the night and ended up just crashing on their couches and sleeping.

This morning we all woke up really late because the boys apartment has very few windows and it looked as dark as night at 11am. We got up and some of the girls went to the grocery store and we made chocolate chip pancakes, sausage, and eggs for breakfast. Then we just chilled with the guys, watching the Big Bang Theory on one of their computers until we finally decided it was a good idea to go home and shower. So we did that and then hung out at our apartment for a little while before going out and wandering around the Vatican area. The beatification of John Paul II is tomorrow and the entire area around the Vatican was already packed with people at 6 camping out for the beatification tomorrow at 10am. Craziness. There are people of all nationalities carrying around flags and singing. They actually moved all the bus stops around to account for the people. We had to take the bus back to Campo so we ended up wandering around for a long time just trying to find the bus. Once we found the bus stop, we took it back to Campo, met up with the guys and went and got gelato before going to dinner. After dinner we all came back to our apartment because the beatification starts so early tomorrow if we want to be able to see anything. So we're going to get up super early to be able to go see it!