Vatican & Rugby Match

Today was our last full day in Rome and we started off by heading to Vatican City to tour St. Peter's Basilica.

Inside is Michelangelo's famous statue, the Pieta.  Michelangelo sculpted this at the age of 24-5.

The interior is incredible.

Afterwards, we went to Piazza Risorgimento to have lunch before we headed to the 6 Nations Rugby match between Italy and France.

 The atmosphere at the match was fun.  Here are some French fans.

The home team had three different marching bands.

Here we are in our seats, waiting for the match to begin.  It got more crowded soon after this photo.

Here we see the Italian team going through warm-up drills.

This marching band played both national anthems.  The French were loud and proud, but the Italians won the singing contest.

Here is a "line in" during the game.  Italy dominated the line ins early in the match.

Here is a "scrum" in the second half.  The French team dominated the scrums.

Here are the guys, enjoying a great match and beautiful weather on our last day.

One of the neighboring fans decided to photo bomb the boys.

Tonight we head to dinner at Piccolo Arancio in Rome.  The owners have cousins who have a restaurant with the same name in Farmington.  The chaperones ate at Piccolo Arancio in Farmington before we left--we'll have to see if Rome is better!  Tomorrow we will head home, so this is the last blog entry.  I hope you enjoyed seeing our adventures!