Holy Week in the Eternal City!

Hello all! I apologize, yet again for the delay in writing! Holy week was very nice here, very relaxing as many had begun travelling. Most of the week was spent sleeping in and hanging out at Bernardi. There were a few families here for the week which was very fun!

One day, Wednesday I believe, Gabbie and I took Bill's eight year old sister, Bobbie to the zoo! It was so much fun to spend time with a kid again. That is one thing I really miss being over here, no interaction with children. The zoo was great though! I saw animals I never even knew existed and even though it rained most the time we were out it was still a lot of fun. We then came back and watched a movie with her and went to dinner. It was definitely a fun day and exhausting day for her.

Thursday we got up early and went to the Chrism Mass at the Vatican by the Pope. It was good to see because we weren't able to secure tickets for the Last Supper Mass. Because if that we went to Saint Maria Maggiore church for mass that night which was beautiful even though it wasn't in English.

Good Friday we ended up, surprisingly, getting tickets for the service at the Vatican. We even were able to dye easter eggs which was a ton of fun!!!

We had stations here in our chapel in the afternoon and then got ready and headed to the Vatican a few hours early to get in line for the Good Friday service. It, as always, was very good! I wasn't feeling well so I came back afterwards and some went to dinner and some to the Stations at the Colleseum, of which we heard afterwards was a complete crazy riot because the Pope did them and you weren't required to have tickets.

Overall, the week was nice and relaxing!