I've been trying to upload pictures... its not working! So frustrating. Rome is officially my favourite place on this trip so far! You should all go. Seriously. First of all, it is very pretty, also there is tons to do, and the history is so cool and so so old! You see things from like 800 BC, all the way through the emperors and Bible times and Michelangelo's time up to Mussolini's time... pretty much all of history, right here! We did a tour of the Sistine Chapel today and some of the other Vatican museums; it was unreal. Then we took a tour of the Palentine hill where the emperors lived and saw the Roman Forum which was even more unreal. The best of all, though, was probably going to the Mamertime museum where we saw the place Paul and Peter were emprisoned. You can see the hole they were thrown through, graffiti on the walls from prisoners from that time. The place is at the bottom of a valley and of course the cell is deep underground so the idea was that when the Tiber river flooded, the water would come into the cell and drown the prisoners. When water was coming into the cell, Paul and Peter were so calm that the guards didn't understand it. They shared the gospel with them and the guards converted to Christianity, and Paul and Peter baptised them right there in the cell with water that was filling up their cell! I can't believe I got to stand where they stood. This, and everything we saw and did today is stuff i will never forget! I'd better get going though, we leave early early tomorrow morning for Corfu in Greece so lets pray that warm weather holds because we can't wait to hit up the beach!
Truckloads of love,
Starr