Day 5

Today we headed back to St. Peter’s for the Scavi Tour; this was in the crept of the Basilica. It was very neat to see all of the tombs of the people form 1000’s of years ago. The part that I enjoyed the most was getting a tour of where St. Peter was buried and seeing his bones that they have found. The facts that I was that close to the very man who first led our church kind of blows me away! We were even in front of his alter, were the Pope goes once a year to pray in front of (so pretty much I prayed in the same spot the Pope did….no big deal). Our tour guide was very neat (she married a Swiss guard). At one point I had asked her if she had met the Pope, and she told me that she lived in his town (ok those aren’t the exact words she said, but it works). She also then said, “This Pope isn’t very loved, but he is a very smart man”, I am not sure why she said that but it was interesting. After the tour we went into a different (more public) part of the crept, and this is were the tomb of many of our Pope’s are. Once we were done with all of that we went to eat our sack lunch. My cheese fell on the ground and about 30 pigeons came and attacked the cheese ball. It was funny to watch them fight over it. So I ended up wasting the rest of my lunch on supplying food for them to fight over. Later that afternoon we headed over to the Vatican Museums and the Sistine Chapel this was pretty neat, however I am not very good in groups of mass amount of people. It also drives me crazy when I walk into a chapel and can’t have some alone time with Jesus; this seems to take some of the beauty out of the chapel. After the tour we were free to go on our own so we headed to get some pizza for some of the girls, but others of us wanted gelato instead so after we got off the metro we hit up the café where I got nutella gelato for the first time. I am pretty much in love with it.