Day 2: Saint Peter's Basilica

I think it will be easier to break up the Rome trip because we did so much! The second day we took a taxi to Saint Peter’s Basilica and waiting in a GINORMOUS line that wrapped around the entire court! We took a few pictures outside while waiting; it was a gorgeous church! So, as I walked up the steps to Saint Peters, I was no longer in Rome, no longer in Italy, but in the Vatican City, the smallest state in the world! Little did I know, that the Vatican City has everything any other state has, a newspaper, a postal office, and way back they even had their own currency! I thought this was pretty cool. SO, there is a lot to say about St. Peter’s Basilica. It is the largest Catholic Church in the world, but the funny thing is that is really doesn’t look all that big, and that is because when you walk in, you have absolutely NO perspective because everything is ENONORMOUS! There is not just a few huge pillars or one giant fresco, EVERYTHING is giant! So there is no way for your brain to see that is so large, because everything in there is built on such a large scale that it appears normal. For example, in the fifth picture, the letters that are going around the dome are two people tall! That's me stacked on top of you! And in the same picture, the huge mosaics you see don’t look very big at all right? Well in the sixth picture, the pen that the man is holding in his right hand, you have to look closely, is NINE FEET LONG! I just couldn't believe it! That is how big this church is!