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Saturday, June 17, 2006


We finally made it downtown around 11:30am. We went to the same restaurant at Piazza Spagna as yesterday and we all ordered the cheese gnocchi- it was so good! When we finished we checked e-mail again and then took the train over to San Giovanni. We found the blue 218 bus that went to the Catacombs. We asked the driver how long it would take, and asked if we had time to go to the bathroom before he left. We don’t think he totally understood us, but he held the bus for us to go to the bathroom and left as soon as we got on! It was really easy to get there as we got off at the Catacomb stop. We had to walk up this huge hill to get to the Catacomb San Sebastian, and then we waited about 25 minutes for a tour in English. This particular catacomb stretches for 7 miles under ground and has 3 levels. We only saw a little bit of it, but what we saw was amazing. As pictures were not allowed we bought great post cards that showed the tombs, the drawings, and the monuments. When we walked back down the hill a bus pulled upjust as we got to the stop (perfect timing). Then we went back to the San Giovanni in Laterano church. Apparently our Vatican tickets allowed us to get into a museum at the church, but it’s only open 9-12 Monday- Saturday so we did not get to go.

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