Today we woke up bright and early. At six am! I knew that we had to get to the Vatican before 9:00 or there would be no hope of getting in/seeing as much as I wanted to. Even though we got there at 8:30 in the morning the line was around the building. We waited for 2 hours in the freezing weather! Yes, all of a sudden Rome got cold and cloudy...grr Istanbul you couldn't let us enjoy the warmth for just another day? Anyway once we got inside we needed a coffee break because Reuben's feet were frozen and asleep and I'm ADDICTED to cappucino!
We ended up not getting a tour guide and just buying the audio guide. I liked that much better the descriptions were short and sweet and you got to pick what you wanted to stop and learn about. The nice thing about coming on the last Sunday of the month is that it is free but it closes at 1:30pm so you don't really get that much time there. And to see all of the Vatican truly is an all day thing. We made our way through most of the museum and saw some incredible rooms designed by Rafaelo. I forgot how much I liked Italian art. Truthfully I didn't remember much from my trip here in high school.
Ancient Roman Statues
I <3 Rafaelo.
Of course the final stop in the tour was the Sistine Chapel and like I remembered it was breathtaking. It doesn't even matter that you're not allowed to take pictures there just because no picture could capture the beauty and grandeur of that room. There are just no words.
We left the Vatican as the were closing and headed back to the Flaminio metro station and got an obscene amount of food for lunch! It was all incredible though, thank god I'm not studying abroad in Italy. I would be middle school 145 lb Rhea again!
The food in Italy is ridiculously good.
We were pretty tired for the rest of the day and it started raining really really hard so of course I still dragged Reuben to the Spanish steps to take a picture there :)
Thanks for being such a good sport Reuben!
But we just got a nice quiet dinner at the restaurant near our hotel, which like all the other food in Italy was delicious. We gorged ourselves. AH I will miss the food here. Anyway tomorrow morning we wake up and leave Rome :( but we got back to Istanbul! Geez could the study abroad life get any better?
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