Wow, the last few days have sped by incredibly fast.  I haven’t had as many pictures to post, since the galleries we visited over the past few days did not allow us to take pictures.  Last Saturday I was able to go to a Caravaggio show in Rome.  It was life altering, which is an experience I seem to be having an awful lot of lately.  The paintings were magnificent.  The details he put in the paintings were unbelievable, they are not done justice in a book or on a computer screen.  Sunday was a pretty laid back day.  I went to another Italian Sacrament Meeting and then Down to St. Peter’s Square to walk around a bit.  Monday we went to A few churches in Rome.  We saw some beautiful Mosaics from the Byzantine Era and some wonderful statues.  The crowning moment was going into St. Peter’s Basilica.  Nothing could have prepared me for the volume contained in that structure.  To say it is gargantuan would be an understatement.  The artwork in the Basilica was awesome too.  Bernini’s Canopy was epic, it truly captured the essence of the Baroque Era with it’s undulating columns and Statuary.  One the way our I took a short tour of the catacombs and saw the burial place of Peter the Apostle. (continue reading…)

One week down, it is hard to believe that I have been in another country for a week already.  I am loving the time that I have had here, and have seen so many wonderful things.

Today we spent at the Vatican Museum and the Sistine Chapel.  I have pictures up until we enter the Chapel and after we leave.  No pictures were allowed inside.  I know some of the pictures are dark, to avoid camera shake without the use of a flash I had to manually set the shutter speed of the camera to 1/60.