We actually got to sleep in today! Miracle of miracles! After breakfast we headed over to San Giovanni or St. John's. This is the Pope's church and THE church of Rome. Most people think St. Peter's is, but nope. It was amazingly gorgeous and is my personal favorite.
After that we took the subway to the other side of the city and toured the Vatican!
It was very interesting....so many rooms. Since it's used for touring, the diversity is great, but I was telling Jonathan that I had no idea what they did with all this space back when it was used privately. It's around 9 Miles long!!!! Crazy to think of living in a space that huge. Sure was beautiful!
At the very end of the tour is the Sistine Chapel or the Cappella Sistina. It was much larger than I thought, with the ceiling being almost 70 ft high! All the walls were painted as well. Saw the most famous scene of God stretching out his finger to a very nonchalant man. Jonathan and I were both close to tears as we took in the carefully crafted images before us.
As soon as we exited the Vatican, we went around the corner to get in line for St. Peter's or San Pietro. It was the largest building I've ever seen in my life! And once we got inside!!! Holy moly!!
Just when we thought we had see. Everything, there was more!! Definitely the most ornate building we've seen and the grandest church by far! It's my understanding that it has the largest dome in the world!
We had pretty much had enough for one day, so we hopped on the subway back to our hotel. We had an amazing, authentic Italian dinner or linguini and crab! (I know it was authentic, because our waitress couldn't speak English.) heehee
This has been the most awesome trip I have ever been on! I am so grateful for my husband, who has been excited for me to see places he's already been and to share our love of history, architecture, and beautiful things.
We are excited to return home tomorrow and see you all in person. I'm sure we'll be full of stories that didn't make it on here because I was too exhausted to write them. Lol.
I hope you enjoyed our blog! Jonathan and I are going on a Bible tour in October and will be raising support to go share the love of Jesus in the Muslim world. I'll be blogging again at that time and hope you enjoyed this enough to join me next time! Until then, dear readers, auf wiedersehen and ciao!!
~Jonathan and Kara Story
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