We visited the Vatican first thing today. Little did I realize that I actually booked our tickets for the Vatican museums during the time of the weekly Papal audience outside of St Peters Basilica. Too bad, we could've seen the Pope Mobile (and the Pontiff himself)! As it was, we saw the aftermath of the crowd and St Peters Basilica was still closed so we weren't able to go inside. But we visited the museums and St Peters Square (or Piazza San Pietro) about an hour after the Pope had left.
Then on we went to a crypt and catacomb tour. Unfortunately we couldn't take photos in the any of the churches or catacombs. We saw lots of tunnels and bones and very cool caverns, you'll just have to trust me on this.
However, just after we left our drop off spot, a big rainstorm hit. Since we didn't have rain gear with us, we waited it out on a corner step and were approached by no less than 7 umbrella street vendors in the course of 15 minutes. Seriously, I'm not sure if these guys monitor weather radar or what, but they are on the street just as the first raindrop falls. However, this time I managed to snap a picture of one. Definitely the "picture of the day".
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