Italy 12: I Think We Were Just Blessed By the Dali Lama!
Can I just say that Rome is a cesspool? It's loud, dirty, tons of traffic, and not very pretty. Go to Florence instead!!!
We first went to the Vatican. It was a two hour wait and at that point we were museumed out, so we skipped it. Instead we went to St. Peter's Cathedral. That is by far the most beautiful church I've ever seen. While we were in line a girl came around saying they had free English speaking tours. We said why the hell not. It ended up being a really good tour, and we got to skip about 30 minutes of waiting. Their ploy was they were trying to drum up business for their Vatican tour. But, hey, at least St. Peter's was free.
Where you see that bronze thingee in the middle????....the Statue of Liberty can stand there and still have room to spare under the dome. The proportions of everything is exact, so letters that you think are one foot high on the walls are actually 6 feet high. It's just amazing.
This is the Trevi Fountain. Can you tell how massive it is? We saw it in the daytime and then passed it at night too. Love it.
Walking around we saw a couple of these shops. At lunch we sat next to a priest from America. He said the robes and stuff in America are five times more expensive than Italy, so a lot of priests go on 'shopping trips' to Italy. heh.
Ok, getting back to the blog title....as we were walking around Rome, we were standing at a street corner when we saw a motorcade coming by. There were two cars in front with flashing lights, and a big white van in the back. Mike said to look in the car that didn't have any lights cause that's where the important person would be. So, when it passed by, we all looked in and there was this old asian/indian guy with red and gold robes on...and he raised his arm at us! We just stood there and said 'Was that the Dali Lama??' The Parliament building was down the street and there were tons of guards and some photographers. When we got back to America, Matt checked it out online, and the Dali Lama was indeed in Rome during that time. So, hey, I think we were blessed by the Dali Lama in Rome! Cool.
We first went to the Vatican. It was a two hour wait and at that point we were museumed out, so we skipped it. Instead we went to St. Peter's Cathedral. That is by far the most beautiful church I've ever seen. While we were in line a girl came around saying they had free English speaking tours. We said why the hell not. It ended up being a really good tour, and we got to skip about 30 minutes of waiting. Their ploy was they were trying to drum up business for their Vatican tour. But, hey, at least St. Peter's was free.
Where you see that bronze thingee in the middle????....the Statue of Liberty can stand there and still have room to spare under the dome. The proportions of everything is exact, so letters that you think are one foot high on the walls are actually 6 feet high. It's just amazing.
This is the Trevi Fountain. Can you tell how massive it is? We saw it in the daytime and then passed it at night too. Love it.
Walking around we saw a couple of these shops. At lunch we sat next to a priest from America. He said the robes and stuff in America are five times more expensive than Italy, so a lot of priests go on 'shopping trips' to Italy. heh.
Ok, getting back to the blog title....as we were walking around Rome, we were standing at a street corner when we saw a motorcade coming by. There were two cars in front with flashing lights, and a big white van in the back. Mike said to look in the car that didn't have any lights cause that's where the important person would be. So, when it passed by, we all looked in and there was this old asian/indian guy with red and gold robes on...and he raised his arm at us! We just stood there and said 'Was that the Dali Lama??' The Parliament building was down the street and there were tons of guards and some photographers. When we got back to America, Matt checked it out online, and the Dali Lama was indeed in Rome during that time. So, hey, I think we were blessed by the Dali Lama in Rome! Cool.
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