Ellie B In Italy

  Hello Blog People,      In the week between going to Rome and my family coming, I had the opportunity to travel on behalf of the school and go to a town called Gaeta.  As the spiritual rep, I was asked to go for Global Youth Day to represent Villa. Overall, it was a short trip. We left early in the morning on Saturday, around 4 AM, and continued past Rome.  It’s a very nice town on the coast in the southern part of Italy. I went with two other ACA students (Natalie and Yasmine), some volunteers, and some theology students. I got to ride in Nicolò's car along with the other ACA students, his wife, and their dog, Nilo. We arrived at the church and immediately went into the church service. Everybody was talking Italian (obviously) and everybody kind of knew everybody.  There are only about 10,000 Adventists in all of Italy, so most people that are involved with the church know each other. After church service we were given sack lunches that the church h...

 Hello Blog People! As promised, here are tons of pictures from my trip to Rome. Hope you enjoy!! Tapestry Broken Angels Flowers <3 I love this one! So many detailed animals! Mummy! Hyrogliphics Canopic jars I guess the Egyptians DID love cats Hall of Maps St. Peter's self Better pic of the Basilica Spanish steps Roomies on the steps The Trevi Fountain On of my favorite pictures Trevi Fountain group pic Coffee and Chocolate Gelato Pantheon ceiling hole The Pantheon Queen Margherita's tomb Vittorio Emmanuele II's tomb The last piazza Day 1 dinner Say cheese!! Peter's chains First pic of me and the Colosseum (and not the last) My Friends :) Inside the Colusseum Victory Arch  Colosseum 0.5 PC: Paige Tyson Ruins this doesn't look finished... Day 2 dinner Sarah and I (I love this picture!)  Roman girlies Ciao,                     Ellie