My trip to Italy Part I

Colosseum I have finally returned home from my two week trip to Italy. It was a great trip, but it is good to be home.

I left LAX on Friday the 13th around 10:30 am I think it was and got to Rome at 4 pm on Saturday. That was two flights: one from Los Angeles to Frankfurt, Germany (11 hours) and the other from Frankfurt to Rome (about 1.5 hours).

The next day the sight seeing began. We started with St. Paul’s church (aka St. Paul’s outside the walls) which was beautiful. We then went to the Catacombs where they buried Christians while they were being persecuted by the Romans.

After a short tour of the Catacombs, we went to the Roman Forum. This was probably the highlight of the trip. We saw the Emperor’s palace, the Colosseum, Circus Maximus, and the rest.

Colosseum from the Emperor’s Palace

Emperor's Palace
Emperor’s Palace

Roman Forum

Next up was the Vatican City, the smallest sovereign-state in the world. As it expected, everything in the Vatican was beautiful. St. Peter’s was larger than life and the Sistine Chapel was incredible. It is amazing how wealthy the Catholic church is. There is gold all over the place and tons and tons of marble on all the walls.

Unfortunately cameras were not allowed inside the Sistine Chapel so I don’t have any pictures of Michaelangelo’s work of art.

The Vatican City