goin' to church

when ryan and i were in rome, we went to church.

alot.

technically, we went to a lot of churches.

here's one.

it's sort of famous.

st peter's basilica.

 wowza.

here's the statue of st peter.

poor thing, everyone's rubbed his toes off!

this is st. peter's square.

the pope had spoken the day before we visited.

we also saw the sistine chapel!

it was beautiful and much smaller than i had imagined. 

we also did a tour of the vatican museum.

ryan loved the first part of the tour...

going through security.

the guards just sat and chatted with each other, never once paying attention to the monitors or flashing red lights when people walked through the metal detectors.

i guess the pope was out that day,

as they didn't seem to care about the 10,000 other people in vatican city.