Lots of Stuff:)

Today had a TON of stuff wedged into it: St. Peter's Basilica (again, but better) its in the Vatican (the smallest country in the world, right in Rome, but not in it at the same time... lol.) It has a pop. of roughly 2,000 people, and right outside of St. Peter's Basilica there is a place that holds 20,000 people! (for when the pope comes). I mentioned going back into St. P's B. (sorry too much to type, its 11:38 at night here) anyhow... we went in there and saw that the dead popes were buried under one fancy gold man-hole thing, and the "good" popes were preserved in wax above in their own glass box (AND WE SAW IT:) = coooooool... Reynolds and I got some "Holy Water" and sprinkle it at each other pretending that we were blessing one another..tehehe:P

St. Peter's bones were found in the cemetery that is now under the church. They were not know to be his until they saw that the bones had no feet, his were cut off and the bones dated back to Jesus' Time. You can only go to the place where he is buried of you reserve a spot months in advance! So yea, "no can do for you go there".. thats prolly something one of the italians would say to us if we couldn't do something...lol:P confuzzling...

The day before we say some huge paintings, but today... we were told (and saw) that they were actually...M-O-S-A-I-C! that was, by quote, "Over a million mosaics, not painted, but found in that color) crazy, i know.

So tomorrow we get to go up to the tippy top of this Basilica and look down, did i mention that thats over 60 meters high! and the dome itself is a whole football field! this stuff is truly amazing:) and it looks like the dome is painted, but guess what... its not... it is another mosaic. that is a whole football field of stones the size of your finger-nail, NOT PAINTED I SAY!) that took 16 years to finish... looong time(:{) (its an italian... lol) there is also an alter that is 30 meters high and it is all bronze but the columns are hollow so... yea. We went to the Trevi Fountain and threw coins in it... mine hit the stone sculptures and you could hear it... MWAHAHAHAaa!

Its now midnight... 12:19 am... June 6th 2010... i want to go to bed... Oh yea! the Colosseum:) it was cool... lol jk i will explain more. The outside of the place didn't break or fall apart or collapse in the middle ages, instead people stole the slabs of marble that the building was made out of so that they could make sculptures... so yea, it did break from earthquakes later, but the main outside was "destroyed" by people in the middle ages (trying to make it clear:) lol. someone stopped that "destroying". In the early 1900s 2 archaeologists made the slanting part at the end of the walls to keep it from breaking (smart:). we saw where the animals and people were kept underground and it was pretty destroyed and weedy (that'll probably happen with 1500 years of wear and tear.) 12:28 am... man, i type SLOW... After tomorrow we are going to get a bus and/or train ride to Pompeii:)!!!

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