from Rome

This is the latest update, this time from Rome. YAY! Since the last
format worked pretty well for me, Im just going to use the format
again. This time, it is cool things since the last time, etc.

Where Ive been since the last email = Patmos, Ephesus, Corinth,
Pompeii, Rome (which includes the Vatican and St Peters Cathedral
today, the Colleseum tommorrow

The bad things = not nearly enough time for anything at all (such as
seeing the Vatican in only four hours), sore feet, not getting to talk
to you about it all, not much sleep, the danger of pickpockets in
Rome, a late ship due to weather that meant less time in Pompeii, not
being able to take pictures of the Sistine chapel, Ephesus is
currently taken over by Muslims

The good things = Patmos (the cave where John is believed to have
written Revelation), Corinth (seeing the judment seat that Paul is
brought before in Acts) Pompeii, the Vatican, Rome, seeing the actual
painting that is the Torrey emblem, St Peters cathedral, the Sistine
chapel, all the artwork and fountains that are just around everywhere
in Rome, the weather which has finally cooled off enough to be
enjoyable

To answer all of you at once, yes I am taking lots and lots of
pictures of absolutely everything, although pictures cannot do things
justice, because you just have to be there to really understand.
Nonetheless, I am trying to take good pictures.

Right now I am still trying to absorb it all. We spent four hours
today in the Vatican, and it was not nearly enough. We only touched on
highlights and really famous stuff. It is all so beautiful, everywhere
in Italy, although Greece was friendlier.

I miss you all and hope you are having a wonderful time,
love,
Kate