What can happen in 3 days?

Okay so I'm done being lazy for a little bit, and I'll give an update (finally!)

on the 6th, besides the Vatican, we went to Trastavere where we had amazing pizza, beer and wine (best yet!) anddd took a huge hike up the hill to Piazzale Giuseppe Garibaldi and saw an equally amazing view of Rome :)

Nov. 7!
I woke up at like 7 or 8 but everyone else was suuuper lazy and got up at 10.45 :p
° Took a bus! to Statione Termini, a huggee crowded train\bus hub. Stank pretty bad but my dad said it brought back memories lol
° Walked to Santa Maria Maggiore's, soo beautiful, they have the manger Jesus was born in, so thats where we'll be in our Christmas picture :)
° Got sum mor petezuh on the way to the Basilica of the Holy Cross - they had the wood of the true Cross, a huge piece of the Good Thiefs cross, 2 thorns of the crown, a nail from the cross, the inscription on the cross, a finger from St Thomas, a part of the block Jesus was scourged at, etc.. it was cur-AZY!!!
° Ohh and in the basilica we walked in on the Dominican priests chanting Afternoon Prayer, it was all echo-y and chant-y haha
° oh and we bought trappist chocolate heheheh gooood stuff!! and NO were not bringin it home!! :D
° walked toooo St John Lateran!
° went to St Clements, which is the 3rd time they rebuilt the church, and we went underground to where the original church was.. that stuff was OLD!
° Went to the Colosseum in the dark!!!! cool beans!! we havent gone inside yet :(
° Walked past the Forum, Trajans Column, and Piazza Venezia, which has the monument to Victor Emmanuel. most italians consider it an eyesore but it was SUHWEET
° Went to Church of the Gesu, I forget whats in thereee
° Randomly went into some church which happened to be St Maria Soppro Minerva, it had an altar for St Rose andd had the body of St Catherine of Siena. Why does this matterr? cuzzz St Rose is my patron and St Catherine is HER patron woot woot!! Oh and it had the arm of St Andreas and idk who he is!
° PANTHEON! sweet! tomb of Raphael!
° Piazza Navorona woooop
° By this time our feet were dying but we walked back across the Tiber (Cause Rick Steves suggestion for a restraunt was lousy.. amazing nightlife though) where we had gnocchi, roasted pork and potatoes, andd spaghetti carbonara
° Gelati of course! (italian ice cream yup yup!)
° Got home at 10pm!


My sis already wants me to get myself off this computer but too bad!

Nov. 8!!
° Dad and I went to Di pér Di (grocery store) and corner bakery and got more stuff to make more dinner, and I fell down on the wet street hahaha! I saved the grapes though!
° Walked to the Vatican again in the rain again to get in line for the Vatican Museum, and there was no line! Saw the Sistine Chapel!! <333 everything in there was AMAZING!! but honestly the new modern art stuff was crap. honestly. :p
° Exited the Sistine Chapel from the "secret exit" back to the Vatican and went to see the papal tombs underground, saw Pope John Paul II's grave :) and St Petes!!!
° Got home around 4.30 and made more spaghetti! We were still dead from yesterday!

TODAY!!!!
This morning we went to Latin Mass (Novus Ordo) at St Petes! Ahem... I mean the Vatican.. anyways!! It was the BOMB! Mass honestly needs a setting like that for every time its said, so much for American churches! :p
After Mass we went outside and most of the Basilica was crowded with people.. bucuss the popes window was open with his red banner coming out! WE SAW THE POPE! He talked for a while, said the Angelus, and then gave us his papal blessing :D
After all that jazz we went to Castel de San Angelo, which was kewl looking on the outside, but only half as good on the inside. After being in there for a hour or two we went to the Spanish Steps!!! Crazy... Gucci, Dior, Dooney & Bourke, United Colors of Benneton, Armani, Valentino, Burberry... all of that stuff in there!! We were hungry so we went to McDonalds, not much of anything like at home though! (ours seem sooo cheesy now!) The fries and Big Mac tasted just like it should though so it was a little taste of home :) After that we went into a bunch of other churches I'll name off later, but one had St Phillip Neris body, another St Peter Julian Eymards body, andddd another had the head of John the Baptist! :O amazing stuff!! We mosied on over to the Trevi Fountain, WAY bigger than I thought it would be! We stopped by the Angelicum, which is a school for seminarians and priests, and my dad went there back in the 80s for a year so it was cool seeing that. We got more gelato on the way home.. best yet!! andd when we got back to our street we stopped at a Irish Pub to grab a bottle o' wine, cause everything else is closed on sundays

I know that was super messy and alot to take in, especially without pictures! I'll hopefully write more details of it later on, in a "more understandable manner" ;)

buona notte!!!