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 We woke up our first morning in Rome and were off early to get to the Vatican.  We had to leave early in order to get there with enough time to get our bearings and pick up our tickets for the Vatican Garden and Sistine Chapel tour.  Today is going to be a long day as we have to stay around Vatican City until at least 2pm to pick up our tickets for the audience with the Pope for tomorrow.  Ronnie is just so excited for that! We picked up the taxi right by the Pantheon and we were off.  People had warned that taxi's were expensive, but this was less than 15 euro for the ride and tip.   We started with the free breakfast from our hotel.  We had our cappuccino and a croissant.    Arriving in Vatican City! The beautiful Vatican Gardens. The bell that was specially made in the Molise region for the Jubilee year.   Roses from the garden Videos from the Vatican Gardens After walking the amazing grounds, walking through the museum to ...

 Day 2 in Rome.  We have our food tour today which is so exciting.  I cannot wait to just walk around Rome and see the different parts and enjoy the foods of Rome and learn a little bit of history.  We had an early tour- around 11am.  The point was to go to the food market area, enjoy the tour and then be able to find some other fun things to do around Rome for the day.  We set out early to try and find the Piazza where we needed to meet.  We wanted to get there early to make sure we did not miss the assigned time.  We figured since it was near an outdoor market we could walk around if we were early and get a cappuccino or something else.  We did get a little lost trying to find it, although it was very close.  But we got to the statue of philosopher Giordano Bruno in plenty of time.  We somehow never got hooked up with the tour.  We saw a bunch of other tours meeting at the same time.  We never found ours.  I got so ...