Afternoon at St. Peters

After a brief (too brief) nap, we spent the afternoon exploring St. Peter's. We even attended 5:00 p.m. mass in Italian.

Here is mom outside of St. Peter's; the Pieta; and the Alter of the Cathedra where we attended mass.

We are going to crash tonight and try to catch up on our sleep. Tomorrow we tour more Roman sites.

Arrived in Rome

We finally made it! You know it's a long flight when you get to see two sunrises - one as we left Portland and the other over France.

It's 11:00 a.m. on Thursday morning in Rome. We are going to sleep for a few hours and then try to get in sync with the time zone. Here is a view from our room overlooking the columns of St Peter's square.

More later.