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Audience with the pope Wednesday in Rome

 The reason we came to Rome- so my husband could see the Pope.  We woke up, we grabbed our cappucino at the  hotel breakfast and grabbed a cab tot he Vatican.  We had to go through security, but Ronnie was so excited so we did get there early.  That meant we got to pick out seats.  We had great seats- although we did not know that you want to sit on the rails because the pope drives around the perimeter and you could be even closer to him!.  




The people waiting for their private audience with the Pope.  He sat for hours to meet with everyone.  

The immigration monument.  It shows that all are welcome at the Vatican.  



The Pope's blessing in English





After listening and praying with the Pope we walked around a bit more.  Ronnie enjoyed a beer from a vender in St. Peter's Square.  He just thought that was hilarious!  

We came back from the Vatican/seeing the pope, dropped stuff off at the room nd just continued our idea of sightseeing in Italy which is aimlessly walking.  Ronnie got to take a pic with his buddy Pinocchio.  

We then walked over to Piazza Navona to walk around and grab some lunch.  The fountain was under some construction.  We stopped at a restaurant called La Dolce Vita.  Ronnie will tall you it was the worst meal he had in Italy.  He hated it.  We started with a bruschetta.  He had veal and fries and I had spinach ravioli.  I enjoyed my meal.  


After lunch we really did just walk around the Piazza, check out more churches, enjoy people watching.  Italy is such an amazing place.  life is at a slower pace.  

It was then time to start planning apertivo and dinner.  We found a restaurant around the corner in an alley from the Pantheon that had tripe.  Ronnie really wanted another round of tripe.  So we though ok, apertivo and then we would go there, they opened around 7pm.   Apertivo is a serious part of the day in Italy.  Ronnie ordered birra, I ordered my Aperol spritz and they bring you a full plate of appetizers at no cost.  
  

After the snacks it was around 7:30, well in typical Italian fashion, time is irrelavent.  The restaurant with the tripe was still not open.  So we decided to keep walking around and see what we wanted to do.  We ended up finding another restaurant down another street off the Pantheon.  We found Maxela.  It looked interesting.  They had a great wine list, so we decided to try it.  I had a wonderful glass of their house red wine, and they started the meal with bread and tarelli!  Then Ronnie ordered the veal scalopinni con limone and I ordered the Petto di pollo agli agrumi (chicken in a citrus fruit sauce.  It was delicious.  

After dinner we walked around some shops in the area and again just people watched.  We ended the night the best way possible, with a gelato, sitting in the square of the Pantheon watching the people, vendors and just loving life.  We were going to be going to Sorrento in the morning.  I could not wait!



































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