Rome - Day 2 Tuesdsay

Tuesday when we got up Jesse had a meeting that started at 8:00am and then I had to be down for a meeting at 10:15am. I headed down in time to eat breakfast and go to our meeting. After the meeting we had a hour or so before we were going on a city tour with the Edward Jones group. We rode in great big coaches around town and then we went to the Vatican. We took a tour of the Vatican for about an hour and a half. The Vatican was very interesting. All of the artwork in there looks painted but is actually mosaic. There were pieces that looked like tapestry but really was a mosaic piece. They had a statue that had Holy Water that you could touch and you could also pass by and rub Peter's feet. We actually skipped on both those things but was interesting to learn why people would do it. There was a Pope that had died in 1962 that they injected formaldehyde in was on display in a glass coffin. After the Vatican tour we drove past a few more places and headed back to the Hotel. For dinner that night we walked down a couple blocks from our Hotel and had dinner at a place called Aurora 10. It was an small little place that had been recommended to us. The food was okay. We were a little disappointed but oh well. After dinner we walked to the Trevi Fountain and the Spanish Steps. They are both really beautiful all lite up at night. We found a nice little shop and had so wonderful Gelatto and headed back to our Hotel for the night. The time difference was really hard to get use to and so being out real late a nights was hard. We both needed full nights rest or we were useless the next day.