Walking was the theme for today. Rome is a great city, heels are not recommended thought because of the cobble stone streets. Anyway we started the day at the Vatican. So the Vatican's kinda unique you are not allowed in it and there are huge walls all around it. What we did do it the Vatican Museum and the Sistine Chapel. The big part of the museum was statues, and some of them were creepy especially when they do weird things with the eyes.
But beyond that what I did find fascinating was that most of the statues are made up of multiple era's of parts. So at some point over the years whoever owned that statue would have it "restored" which may require new parts. So while reading the information on each piece it would say but the head is from years later or but the body was added and the heads older. Very strange, and some even seemed like male bodies but ladies heads. The sistine chapel was neat, very colorful and detailed. Its amazing the information they have in the vatican is very heavy greek gods. A lot of history before Christ versus just focusing on Christianity. I also didn't know there have been so many pope's, more than we have presidents but they got a head start the first one i think was 64AD or something like that.
After the Vatican we went over to St Peters cathedral. It was very impressive inside, nice paintings more statues this time of saints and popes. I also tried to find some Euro's because the vatican has their own set. But for public circulation apparently this year they have only released the 50 cents. Everything else has to be in a collector set, its also interesting to note that since its introduction to the Vatican in 2002 they are on their 3rd image. I'll have to see but didn't know they were allowed to change them so often. On our way out we were able to see the changing of the guard. Their guards wear almost jester like outfits in orange and blue.
From the cathedral we came back to the apartment and rested a bit. Feet were tired. So then we setup to find dinner that was at 5:30, and we just got back now which is 11pm. Anyway we asked about a good place to eat so we started walking the suggested location. Great walk into old rome we ate at a nice place in an outdoor plaza and enjoyed some music in the background. Have not really mentioned the food, tonight I tried Fettuchini Alfredo, it had peas and bacon and I liked it. Yesterday I had Gnocchi, this I was not a big fan, it was just dough balls with some sauce. Not impressive. Oh something else very odd, salads come with a big round chunk of buffalo mozzarella, and I mean the size of a normal tomato chunk just on the salad. Yummy but different.
After dinner we decided to walk some sites and find some desert. First desert, of course, I had what is considered a traditional desert it was a pastry made of ricotta and chocolate. It was supper yummy but very sweat. Anyway we walked over to the St Angelo Castile (pix) and the Pantheon. We then headed to the Trevi fountain. My first thought as sad as it may be was are we in vegas? I think a similar fountain is in the Venetian. But this one was much nicer. We also found out that the kings really like the egyptian totems and they brought them over and had them placed as street markers all over rome. So we saw a bunch of old fancy street signs.
Anyway tomorrow we will go see the colosseum and other roman architecture. If my feet hold up it should be a good day.
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