A Funny thing happended on the way to the Forum.?

Today was our first day of real Italian site seeing.  We left at 7:10 am after a delicious breakfast.  they had a custard croysant, eggs, bacon, cold cuts, some cheese, good coffee. fruit and all the other items one would fine at a hotel breakfast.
We went by bus to Vatican city.  Because we had a guide and the company Gobus had booked a reservation for our group we were able to walk to the front of the line and take short cuts that would get us in to see St. Peters Church and the Sistine Chapel.  Our guide's name was Chincia and she has been a certified guide for over 34 years.  She was very good.  She told us facts about the ceiling and the front wall fresco that Michaelangelo had completed for the ruling Pope of the time.  He had been a sculptor and before he painted the Sistine Chapel he had never painted before.  The ceiling, which deals with the creation of man had been restored(cleaned).  It took 5 years to clean and it looked brand new.  She said the procedure took a long time as each section had to be cleaned in small postage size area. I had been to the sistine chapel in 1969 and at that time I had been disappointed with the condition of the ceiling and the front fresco which deals with death, Christ and heaven and Hell.  This time the colors were very vivid and the true genius of Michaelangelo could be appreciated.  In the Church we were able to see the sculpture of the Mother and son.  Mary holding a dead Jesus.  It was behind a glass wall as in the early 70's a crazy man came to the church with a hammer and hit the sculpture 120 times.  Fortunately the sculpture was able to be restored to it original glory. After we walked though the church which the guide claimed held 55,000 people, we then boarded the bus and went to the Colosseum and the Roman Forum.u
The first thing we saw was the Arch of Constantine which is an arch built to honor the Christians.  The emperor Constantine was the first emperor to reconize the Christians.  I had studied about this in my Latin class in High school.  The colosseum is huge and according to the guide is the example for all major sports stadiums of the present.  At the time of the height of the colluseum in the summer when it was hot they had a roof to sheild the spectators.  The guide pained out where the different spectators sat and who sat where.  She showed us where the emperor sat and the slaves or conficts who were to fight to the death would come into the colusseum and salute him.
The colusseum also held 55,000 people and is the same size as the church of St. Peters.  The colusseum was a great structure and we again had priority viewing.
Then it was on to the forum, which are ruins from the days of the Roman Empire.  I took pictures of some of the ruine, the place that Julius Cesar was stabbed and cremated.The weather today was overcast but it did not rain.
After the forum we got back on the bus and came back to the hotel.  Glenda and I went for  a small portion of Pizza.  I then went back to the hotel and took a nap. and Glenda went to get an Asian Massage that took away all her aches and pains.  When she got back she reported that she felt like she died and went to heaven.
About an hour ago we went to dinner at a place called Dame,  which in italian means" its on me".  We had wonderful tender and tasty fillet of beef and vegs.  We had sorrbett for desert.  It was all great.
Tomorrow we go to Florence so I am now going to end here and get ready for bed.  Bonasera!