Romeing Around: Un fine settimana in Roma!

So this weekend, while some people went to Florence, a bunch of people ended up staying in Roma! I figured that since I've already been to Florence and it's not really one of those places you have to go to more than once, I stayed here as well. Friday we had makeup classes (classes were canceled for the Papal Audience, so we had to make them up).

After class a few of us decided to go to a bones church Julia found online. It was by far the creepiest thing I've ever seen, but once you got past the creepiness of it and read the explanations of each room, it was pretty cool.

The church: It is the final resting place for over 4,000 Capuchin friars, who died between 1528 and 1870, as well as several poor Romans. The soil in the crypt was brought from Jerusalem. Large numbers of the bones are nailed to the walls in intricate patterns, many are piled high among countless others, some hang from the ceiling as working light fixtures. There are six total rooms in the crypt, all but one featuring a unique display of human bones.
Here's the website for the Church-we couldn't take pictures, but you can see it all on this site: http://www.cappucciniviaveneto.it/cappuccini_ing.html
After that we walked around a bit before heading back for dinner. That night we watched Angels and Demons, which was pretty cool cause I've been to most of the places shown in the movie. I still need to go to some of the places, so I'll have to make sure to do that.
Saturday I went to the Vatican Museum which just amazing! Unfortunately people got yelled at for taking pictures in the Sistine Chapel, so I only got one very blurry picture, but I was able to take pictures of the rest of the museum. I wish we could have had more time to walk around, cause the museum is huge, but we did see everything we wanted to see. I usually don't like to spend entire days in art museums but this museum is definitely something different. I could have spent hours just walking around and seeing all the exhibits, which ranged from the Egyptian section to the Classical Antiquities to the Raphael room to modern art and, of course, the Sistine Chapel. The Sistine Chapel was incredible, definitely a must-see when in Rome. It was a great day and I have around 80 pictures from just that day :)