Rainy Rome

Day 3.
I had so many things planned for this day, but it only goes to show that the Lord always has the last word. I woke up to see that it was raining pretty hard, we tried to wait it out but around noon time we were still inside the apartment and it didn't look like it would stop so we decided to venture out in the rain. We took the metro (subway) and went to see a genuine pyramid in the middle of Rome. This was a pyramid erected by one of the emperors who had visited Egypt and found the idea of being buried in one of these cool. We also walked along the old wall that used to serve as protection for the city. Once we got our fill of the wall and the pyramid we went to the St. Peter In Chains Church, this church houses the famous Michaelangelo sculpture of Moses, it was pretty impressive to see, it also has a shrine housing the supposed chains that held the apostle Peter when he was in jail in Rome. It was sad to see how people came up to this shrine and knelt down to pray to some old rusted chains.

Our second part of this day took us to the Vatican where we visited St. Peter's Basilica, the world's biggest church it can hold up to 95,000 worshipers at one time. Everything here is huge and in my opinion gaudy, inside the church we got to see the famous sculpture of the Pieta. We also saw another sad scene of people lining up to kiss the foot of a sculpture of St. Peter, people have been doing this for so long that the toe of this marble sculpture is worn down, talk about superstition and idolatry. Well overall for a rainy day we got a lot accomplished. After a well deserved dinner, have I mentioned that the food here is great, we returned to the apartment and chilled for the rest of the night.