Pics of Rome - Day 1

Ciao!

Thanks for your patience!  I got the picture thing worked out.

Many of you have requested food pics.  I'm trying to remember to take a picture before I eat something, but I have a few!!

Exit for the Vatican Museum

Line to get into the Vatican museum!!

Back veiw of the dome of St Peter's as seen on my LONG walk

Globe thing in one of the gardens at the Vatican

Another random pic of the Vatican

Yet another random pic.   But the Archtecture is soooo cool

Close up on the Globe

 Looking down at the exit staris at the Vatican museum.  Here is where my camera (iPod touch BTW) decided to use a filter.  And while this filter kinda works for these sort of pictures, I do wish the color was better.

 Fountain somewhere in a Vatican Garden

This was cool, and obviously taken from outside the Vatican on that LONG walk

First view of St. Peter's Square -- I'm not sure I've been moved as much as I was upon entering

 Various views of St. Peter's Square

I thought this was somehting important, but when I got to the otherside, I realized it was just masking a fountain renovation

More St Peter's Square - trying to capture the Saints on the roof, I think

Of course, there had to be a crane!!

Me trying to find the smoke stack from the Sistine Chapel - hence various pictures and angles

The dome inside St Peter's

This is either St Peter or St Paul.  I didn't get the one on the way out, which is on the other side of the entrance

Baldichino over the Altar

 Looking out into the square before entering - I took this again without this darned filter.

Not sure what this is, but it was in St Peter's

Pipes - how we love pipes!!!

This is a blurry picture of the organ and some mic's toward the front of the Basilica where they actually say Mass and there are pews

Confessional boxes - empty as usual LOL

Thought this was a little close to home

Not sure what this is

 Or this - actually it's the same picture - maybe without the filter?

More random pics

St Peter

More pipes - actually, they are probably the same pipes without the darned filter

This was just tear jerking  - the Pieta.  Those who understand will know why, those who don't will think it's a lovely sculpture

Ah -- a view of the square without the filter

St Peter's Square selfie

One last look at St Peter's Square

So hungry after my Vatican experience that I forgot to take a picture of the pizza before I devoured it.  Cheese, mushroom and ham.  Definitely not DiGiorno

So that's it for Day One part one pics.  More to come in a bit.

Ciao, 

Maestro