August 17, 2000, Day 11

(Joe Sotelo flying over St. Peter's Square)

Diary entry from Kate Goodman

Just wanted to give a shout-out to the fam and crew back home.  Everything is going great.  Today we visited the Vatican Museum, Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter's.   It was all so beautiful!  As we travel around Rome, it is difficult to imagine that our country has historical sites that are 200 years old, and here there are statues and monuments more than 2000 years old.  Tomorrow we're supposed to see the catacombs -- I can't wait!  Mom, I wish you could see this place -- the shopping is outstanding.   Dad, it's not a out of a western but I have a feeling you'd like it, too.  Matt, miss you a ton (they even have Pokemon over here :)).  Don't worry and thanks for the prayers -- we're praying for you, too.  Can't wait to see you.  God Bless!

Kate saying hi (687 kB)

Travel log

Today we woke a little earlier and got to the Vatican Museum at 8am or so.  The Museum hadn't opened yet and there was already a big line.  Inside the Museum we saw a lot of statues, tapestries, and paintings that the Vatican owned.  The most famous and prestigious part was the Sistene Chapel and Michaelangelo's paintings on the ceiling.   After seeing it in so many pictures it was pretty neat to see it in person.   From leaving the Museum, we hopped into a line to walk through St. Peter's.   Inside we were able to see the Pieta (Michaelangelo's sculpture of Mary holding Jesus).  The Church was pretty impressive.  We didn't go downstairs because it was so crowded, but we heard that they have a whole bunch of chapels down below with Masses starting all the time in all different languages.  After leaving St. Peter's, we had free time for the rest of the afternoon.  We met again around dinner time and went to eat dinner. After dinner we all just went back to the hotel and hung out.

More Pictures

Alex on top of St. Peter's Dome
Alex and Joe on St. Peter's Dome
A few people at dinner
Fr. Jim and Darren Tewes
Joe S. with St. Peter's Dome in the distance
St. Paul's Basilica in Rome
Weilands at the tomb of St. Peter
Statue of St. Peter
St. Peter's Tomb
St. Peter's from the outside
Some artwork inside St. Peter's
Dome inside St. Peter's
Dome inside St. Peter's (2)
Joe S. and the Weilands with St. Peter's dome in background
View from top of dome down in to St. Peter's
Front chapel part of St. Peter's
Matt H, Jen, and Ann in St. Peter's
The Pieta in St. Peter's
St. Peter's Tomb (2)
Caitlyn and Erin W. walking through St. Peter's
Theresa with the Swiss guard in the Vatican
Theresa walking up to St. Peter's dome
Vatican artwork
Vatican artwork (2)
Kate and Caroline
Ceiling of a Vatican Museum hallway
Ceiling of a Vatican Museum hallway (2)
Our Vatican tour guide
The Holy Door at St. Peter's
Line to go in to St. Peter's
Katy Muir and the Weilands
Vatican Roof
A Vatican Sculpture
The Weilands on St. Peter's Dome

More MPEGs

View of Rome (160kB)
View of Dome inside St. Peter's (328 kB)

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