Day Three of Rome: Woke up at the buttcrack of dawn to go with a group of students to get into the Vatican museum when it opened. I'm pretty sure it's like the hugest museum in the freaking world, and I would've spent days exploring every last part of it, however: what I really wanted to see was the Sistine Chapel, and so since it gets quite crowded in there, booked through most of the museum just to get to it. Since I've been in an art appreciati...

Well, I know that I am subject to public flogging because I haven't updated this thing in so long... but here at long last is a new entry for those waiting with bated breath and hook to hear about what mischief I've been up to. I haven't written about my previous 10-day break (to France, Spain, and Portugal) largely because Spain wasn't a great experience and partly because there wasn't enough time to write. I've taken two additional trips...