Our first port is Rome today and because we have a limited amount of time and we are going to be back for a couple of days, our day in Rome was spent visiting the Vatican.
We took an hour train to the nearest Rome train station to
the Vatican and walked about 20 minutes before getting there.
As it was Sunday, there were huge crowds, the largest we
have ever seen. We joined a long line
but it moved fast and in about 10 minutes we were inside.
We walked around a bit and joined hundreds who were there to
celebrate at one of the serval masses being held that day.
It was a moving experience
As we walked outside, there were hundreds and hundreds of
people watching the window that the Pope would appear at Noon. We stood in the crowd and saw and heard the
Pope give a message to the crowds.
Then it was time to start back to the train station and
along the way we stopped at a restaurant to have a pizza and it was very good.
The train back took about an hour and then we took the
shuttle to the ship getting there at about 4:00pm.
Of course we went up to the top deck where they had an
afternoon food set out.
Finally we made it back to the cabin and got ready to go out
for the evening.
Tonight show was a show called Gravity and it was all
balancing and acrobatic skills acts and it was entertaining.
Then we went to dinner and had Barb had Italian and Ed had
fish.
Finally we went to the casino where Ed lost for the second
day in a row and Barb did not play yet.
