BTW...Ellen is blogging today's entry.
In Drew's words today was 'another death march'. This is why Joel and I are sitting at a bar/internet cafe by ourselves FINALLY finding the internet we needed. Today we saw the Pantheon which we all thought was fascinating. For me the absolute highlight was the St. Pietro in Vincoli (St. Peter in Chains) Church which houses three of Caravaggio's original paintings of St. Matthew. We had to put one Euro in the illuminating box several times until I got my fill. Sweet!
We also saw an original Michelangelo (Christ Bearing the Cross) in Santa Maria sopa Minerva church which was also a thrill (mostly for me, but the others seemed at least interested.) Here we also lit a candle for Grandma Kay and bought her a beautiful rosary...her favorite souvenir.
After some discussion over some awesome pizza (our first pizza in Italy) we decided to give the Capitoline Museum a whirl on the way home. Overwhelming!! So much sculpture and painting in one spot that our heads were spinning. All good, but perhaps the reason that we ended with the 'death march' description from Drew.
Enough for today. We're posting a picture from yesterday since we don't have any from today uploaded at this time...a rare one of Joel (the photographer) in front of the Coliseum.
xo
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