Easter

THE ONLY PICTURE I HAVE FROM EASTER VIGIL!

Saturday was kind of an eventful day!

Saturday we slept in a little, but then by like 10 or 1030, Catherine, Isaac's sister, and I headed out to go shopping for a few hours. On our way out we ran into a couple of the guys who were able to get us tickets to the Easter Vigil. This was the Mass they told us no way would we be able to get tickets to, but yet again, we got them!!! We were all excited! We got back from shopping and got ready to head to the Vatican at 4pm. The Mass didn't start til 10pm and the doors opened at 8:15p but we wanted to get a good spot in line, so we had to wait 4 and a half hours to get in.

In the meantime, I had started the day with a headache. As the day went on, my headache progressed to a migraine. By the time we got into St. Peter's the pain was so intense I was shaking! I can't explain what it was like, all I know was it was intense and I don't remember much of what happened after that because of that.

From the little I rememeber and what my friends here told me, I told Emily that I was in so much pain that I felt like I could go to the hospital. She then got out her blackberry to try and email Thanos and to try and find a cell phone to call him to have him come pick me up. In the meantime, they took me to the first aid in St. Peter's and they took my pulse and blood pressure. My pulse was normal but my blood pressure was really high. They were concerned so they wheeled me out and had an ambulance take me to the hospital.

Not going to lie, I didn't like the Italian hospital at all. I was hardly coherent to know what was going on around me. They also wouldn't let Gabbie come in with me and they barely spoke English. So all they did there was make me wait 2 hours and 45 minutes of the three hours I was there out in the waiting chairs. For the 15 minutes I was in the room, they took my blood pressure again and pulse and then gave me a shot of I don't even know what just to take the edge off. I was finally able to go home after midnight with not much help.

I was supposed to leave for Prague Sunday morning but unfortunately I had to cancel that and my trip to Salzburg! It wasn't worth me dying over though and I wasn't in any condition to travel thats for sure! So almost everyone was gone by Sunday afternoon. Luckily there were a few guys around that were able to help me out that didn't leave until Monday afternoon. It was a rough few days but now (Wednesday) finally I am feeling mostly well!

It was a relaxing couple days sitting up on the terrace in the sun by myself as I got better!

So tomorrow I will leave in the afternoon for Vienna, Austria for a few days! I am excited to get out of Rome again for a couple days!

I will update hopefully on Sunday when I get back!

You all continue to be in my prayers here and I hope you all had a very Blessed Easter with friends and family!

More to come soon!

Arrivederci!

ps...sorry I don't have any pictures from the Vigil but since I wasn't there I couldn't take any ... I am getting some from those who were there though so whe I do I will place them in the blog!