I can tell that we're winding down a little more cause today was a nice light day, but we still did plenty of walking. We started off by going to a church called San Giovanni in Laterano. This is the church dedicated to John the Baptist. It was cool cause they also had statues of all of the disciples up and down the main hall.
Afterwards, we went over to the Scala Santa across the street. These are the Holy Steps that Jesus took to Pontius Pilate in Jerusalem and that got wet with his blood. They've been moved several times, and ended up in Italy around the 1500s. Today, we saw several "pilgrims" going up these stairs by their knees, one step at a time. There are prayers associated with the steps as well. We went up the other steps and saw several other mosaics and paintings. The whole thing was unreal...
After that, we ended up on the Via del Corso again and did a little more shopping. (I got myself a pretty Italian leather purse.) We went to La Rinascente, which is a big department store. Then we headed down to Capitoline Hill. We were going to go into the museum, but lost motivation, so we went to the Cafe there instead. This was up at the top of the hill, so we got to have our coffee with amazing views of the city.
The other place on our list of things to do was the Mouth of Truth, so we walked past the Teatro di Marcello and the Circo Massimo (Circus Maximus) to the church dedicated to Saint Mary, which also houses the Boca della Verita. Then we waited with a bunch of other shoving people that wanted to stick their hands in the mouth and take a pic. It was interesting to see, but nothing spectacular.
Other than that, we're just going to head to dinner tonight and hang out. It's been an expensive week, so I'm not sure what else we're planning on doing. I think tomorrow we'll just hit up some walking sights near the hotel before heading out to Ciampino for the flight back to Paris. Hopefully, we'll get the same driver as before cause he was awesome. :)
