The next morning we woke up really early and started heading over to the Vatican! Before, however we stopped at our amazing breakfast cafe that was included with the hostels and got croissants from what Ravi thought was the most beautiful girl in the world =) haha. After breakfast, we got on the metro and headed over to the Vatican. When we got there we met up with a tour guide because if we didn't we would of had to wait in a really long line, and the Vatican Museum is so huge that if you don't have a guide you will most likely be completely lost. They have so much in there, if you stood in front of every piece for around 30 seconds you would be in there for a few months. It is really big haha. So we met up with our group and began our walk. Once we got to the walls we skipped the lines and went inside, once we stepped inside we were in another country! It was really cool being inside another country inside Rome! We then began our tour. It was a pretty intense tour, our guide like ran us through a lot of the stuff and just stopped at the really important ones, and the ones she felt have a good story behind them. A few I really liked where the Raphael painting, and one by Leonardo Da Vinci, which was unfinished and had a drawing of another cathedral he was planning on building because when he was painting this he didn't have any spare paper. So he was planning on painting over it when he was done, but he never finished! Art like that is really interesting because you get a little peek into the brain of the artist. Another thing I liked was for The Last Judgment by Michelangelo for the Sistine Chapel, he painted Jesus and he looks different from most of the other Jesus paintings, and she actually showed us the statues that he used to model Jesus after, and I thought that was really awesome. So we walked along for a pretty long time, and then once we got closer to the Sistine Chapel we came to a room with so many paintings on the ceiling it was insane, and the craziest part about this whole thing was that all this artwork, in the past, was only for the Pope's eyes, it was his personal collection! Wow, what a collection, all the artwork for one man. It was so amazing to be in here. We then got to the Sistine Chapel. Wow, that's all I can really say about that, is Wow. That Chapel was so incredible, thinking of how much work must have gone into that, and the immense amount of pressure. The craziest thing is that Michelangelo was a famous sculptor! Not even a renowned painter and he still managed to create this magnificent work! Standing inside that chapel was so incredible, and staring at all the beautiful art work. It was a really amazing moment, and I really hope to get back one day. After we left the Sistine Chapel we went into St. Peter's Basilica, which is the biggest cathedral in the world. Once again, wow, haha. It was amazing, so giant, the architecture that went into that and all the statues and art was just incredible. Just the size of the cathedral was awe inspiring. The whole trip to the Vatican was pretty amazing, and I really enjoyed every second of it. There are so many incredible works of art in there by some of the greatest minds of our time and it was just so incredible to see all these works up close and personal. It was amazing. After our tour, we headed back to the colloseum because we were planning on taking a tour of the Roman Forum, but that didn't work out, haha. The tour never showed up, so we were like boooooooo. So instead we played where's Waldo with Laura's incredible camera. We would just go into the crowd and the person with the camera would try and find us. It was a lot of fun, and we got some really funny shots, and we also got some really funny shots of random people haha. So after that we decided to go see the Appian Way, which was one of if not the most important road in Ancient Roman times. It was where the armies would march to and from the city and where a lot of the Christians would be crucified to warn against that religion back when it was not tolerated, and where all the business came in and out of. Also it is supposed to be pretty beautiful. So we walked from the Colosseum because it was supposed to be not too far away. That, however, was a lie. We walked a pretty long way and finally came to what we thought might be it, so we went inside a cactus store and asked someone in there and said we were on the Appian Way but it doesn't start getting pretty for about 3 or 4 kilometers! Oh no! It was a lot of fun though, but we decided we didn't have enough time so we hopped on a bus and went back, Appian Way we will come again! After that, it was time to go to dinner, because today was Ravi's Birthday!!! We went to a pretty good authentic Italian restaurant and had a really good dinner. Antonio and Lucas came to visit, and Mark came from Milan and met us there too! It was a lot of fun being with everyone and we all celebrated Ravi's birthday. After that, we went to what I can only describe as the most magical gelato/candy store in the world. It was called Della Palma and they had like 50 flavors of the most amazing gelato ever, and a huge selection of candy. Also, when you ordered from this one guy, the magician as we call him, he would take a cup and slowly put it in front of you and say "DIMI" which means tell me. It was really funny, and so so delicious. After that incredibleness, we walked around a little more, then went back to our hostel and hung out there for a while. Then we went to bed because tomorrow was another intense day of Rome!!!
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