You were so lucky to get up close and personal. We were only able to see him as
part of a large crowd. Not the same.
Been all over the Vatican, down underneath, in the Treasury, and twice to the
top of the cupola. Awesome is right.
Then after you are done at the Vatican there is the rest of Rome to see and
experience. Plus all the food that anybody could ask for. I like to just get a
Coffee and sit in a sidewalk place and watch the people stroll by. We most
likely will not do another Land Cruise to Rome until 2008. It looks like our
2006 trip will be to Paris and the Normandy Beaches.
Say Hi to Ed for us and enjoy your visit to San Diego. We were there last
October on the Dawn Princess and that town has really cleaned up. It was a very
enjoyable day we spent there.
Cal Ford
In article <6Jx3g.19851$tN3.3656@newssvr27.news.prodigy.net>, Jean O'Boyle
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>"Cal Ford" wrote in message
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>> That is the whole point of travel Jean. To build those pleasant and
>> precious
>> memories that you can replay time and time again. They only get better as
>> time
>> passes.
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>> Our third trip to the Vatican was the fall of 2000 as I had promised Pat I
>> would
>> take her for Jubilee Year. For my birthday earlier that year one of my
>> BIL's,
>> who was a Sports Writer for years, stopped by the University in Berkeley
>> and
>> picked up a "CAL" baseball cap.
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>> It was a Sunny day so I wore that hat that day. After the outdoor audience
>> we
>> were making our way up the side toward the portico where would be able to
>> enter
>> the "Holy Jubilee Door" when I hear a very loud voice bellow "GO BEARS".
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>That is funny, Cal! You really did have your moment of fame! Some one knew
>you by name!! ;-)
>I was almost afraid to read on, thinking that it was Pope John Paul,
>himself! It would almost be like something he would do with his sense of
>humor..I had the privledge of an audience with him when he was here in San
>Antonio with a group of people of Polish descent from Panna Maria here in
>Texas and we all got to sing in Polish together with him!.
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>> That was a great Land Cruise and I will never forget the time we spent in
>> Rome.
>> What a spectacle that was. Really impressed this Baptist boy from Sayre,
>> Oklahoma.
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>It is awesome...we have been there three times and each time we have walked
>away so impressed and still not having seen it all..It would take months, I
>suppose...Did you go downstairs to the chapels right under the large statue
>of St. Peter?
>I would love to go back again.
>--Jean
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>> Cal Ford
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