Easter Sunday!!!

Sunday started early as Sean and I, mainly I, wanted good seats for Easter mass. We got to St. Peters square around 8:30 in the morning and there was already a pretty long line. We got through the security around 9 and made a mad dash to the seats. We got in about the 30th row! Unfortunately, this was the first day where it rained the whole day. So pretty much the whole mass we had our umbrella out and once we stood for the first time we didnt sit back down because our seat was soaked!

The mass was really interesting and I had a good view of the pope, in between umbrellas that is.. The mass was mainly in latin but there were parts that were in other languages. The whole second reading was in English. It wasnt that hard to follow along but sometimes I would get lost and have to find where we were based off the priests behind us.

At communion it was a mad dash to the priests. I was one of the lucky people to actually get communion! So my Easter morning was spent in St. Peters square listening to the pope and having communion in the rain in Rome.

After mass we went to find Mackenzie because she had just gotten in. She happened to be walking right outside the caffe we were in when she called me so it was a lot easier to find her than we thought it would be! So after our reunion we started to wander the city again!

We saw the pantheon, colosseum during the day, and the forum. The forum is the old ruins of the city. We got some pretty awesome pictures of all of them. Occasionally we would jump into a museum or building to get out of the rain. We got some wine and chocolate eggs in a "grocery store" for later that night.

We then went to the campsite to drop off our stuff and relax a bit. Once we got back into the city we got our tickets for Venice the next day. To truly celebrate Easter we went to a traditional Italian meal. Of course I had lasagna and wine to top it off! It was a really yummy meal and we took our time eating it so we could take in the moment. We were eating lasagna in Italy on Easter!!


That night we had our eggs and wine to finish off our Easter celebration! :)