Today is Day 21 of our trip, and it’s about over. Just one more day here in Italy and then on Saturday we fly back to Dallas.
By the way, I blogged about the whole trip, though I didn’t send them all out by email. Just check my feed for the last 3 weeks and you’ll see my thoughts on P-Con and what we saw in Italy.
Anyway, it was also another 11,000 plus step day, or about 5 plus miles. I’m not gonna lie, it’s getting harder and harder to do this because though we’re in better shape, we’ve not allowed our bodies a chance to recover. I’ll post our step and mileage count next week and it’s been pretty good. Maybe not as much as the walk through Wales, but pretty good.
Tomorrow may be the biggest day yet, with all we want to do, but might as well go out with a bang.
Today was pretty awesome, though. We walked over to the Vatican and went through their museum, the Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter’s Basilica.
O. M. G.
We did a whirlwind tour through the museum, thanks to a tour guide that went at lightspeed. It was still amazing, and I’ll tell you more when I do my follow up pages including pictures after I get home.
I got to see Etruscan writing in the flesh! How cool is that?
Then to the Sistine Chapel, which is more glorious than you’ve seen in pictures. Speaking of which, we weren’t allowed to take any. The other item of note is that it’s smaller than I expected so when they choose a pope, the cardinals per square foot ratio is humongous!
Then on to St. Peter’s, which is astounding. Just astounding. I do have pictures there, including a bunch of the floor and ceiling. So incredibly majestic. Awe-inspiring. Regal. Worth seeing, no doubt.
I should mention before I go that Giant Killer Kaiju comes out on the 23rd and after that, on November 13th, my first boy’s adventure book comes out. We’ll talk about that more later.
But for now, dinner and then getting ready for a final roam around Rome!