Oh the places to go.....

Rome and Christina

Sunday. We,re in Rome and we are going to tour the city after lunch. There is the same kind of tour bus like we had in Dublin where you can hop on/off kind of thing. First off it is hotter than a stuffy day in the kitchen. There really wasn,t any point in showering that day because all you did was sweat and sweat some more. We toured around Rome and decided to get off at St. Peter,s Bascillica to take a look around. It,s interesting because they have a dress code and the women can,t be in sleeveless shirts and the men also plus they can,t wear shorts. So first you pass through a metal detector and put your bags in an x-ray machine, then you pass through another set of men who look at what you,re wearing and then take the innappropriate dressers out of the line. On our way into the basillica we saw some guards standing post and we wanted to take their picture. In the Vatican it,s its own country and they have their own post office, rail system and zip code. They also have their own guards which wear a very unique uniform. You,ll have to google it to see for yourself, but it,s very court jesture like. While we were taking pictures we saw a couple pass by and I said jokingly to Charles that it was Christina Aguillera and her husband. Charles thought that it really was her but why would she be in Rome. So we continued on into the basillica.

This place is gynormous!!! I can,t even begin to describe how huge it is. The piazza outside it even bigger than gynormous but the basillica inside is huge. It,s incredibly long and tall and absolutely beautiful. I still can understand hwo they built it with all the carvings and frescos etc. They were having mass when we got inside and so I went up to the very front to hear what was going on and I look over to my immidiate side and guess who,s next to me? Christina Aguillera!! She was there with her husband and body guards checking out the place. I tried to be discrete and take her picture but I still had my camera on video mode so I got a video of her and then changed it real fast and tried to snap some fotos. It was pretty crazy.

But back to the basillica. I,ve never seen another chapel outside of our church that left me totally amazed. Becuase of the size, the architecture, sculptures, really the whole thing. It was very impressive. They even had a sculpture of the Saint Camillo so I took my picture with him.

The whole day was so incredible hot and humid that we were so wiped out by the end of the day. We took the subway and bus back to our campground and on the bus it was really crowded and there were some young boys trying to pick pocket us and take atvantage of all the crowds, but Dave figured it out and actually grabbed they kid,s hand and held onto it until our stop. It was pretty funny. Luckily our bungalow that we we,re staying in at the campground had air conditioning so we did laundry that night and headed to bed.

posted by Camille @ 8:07 AM