While

whatever news is going on in the U.S., it's about time for me to go to bed here. I will say that the Vatican is something to see. Literally thousands of people were there today taking in St. Peter's Basilca and the Sistine Chapel and Vatican Museum complex.

We didn't see Pope Benedict, though; he must be hiding out after the latest controversy.

We spent several hours there, literally all day, and we still did not get to see everything there was to see. We did see the Basilica and the Sistine Chapel, which has all of those frescoes Michelangelo did in something like four years, but people cannot take pictures of. Let me tell you, the pictures do not do the places justice.

Tomorrow we are going to see the Coloseum in Rome before heading off to Florence on Thursday.