POPE TIME

I learned that on Sunday the pope comes to his window and blesses everyone that's in St. Peter's Square, so I had to go. I ended up going to 10:30 mass in St. Peter's Basilica, then frolicked out to the square to get some quality 1-on-20,000 time with Pope Benedict. He said the blessing in about 6 different languages, and was fairly fluent at all of them. I was impressed. (And DEpressed b/c I'm still just trying to master Spanish. Whatever Bene.) Anyway, I wasn't told until afterwards that apparently everything you have with you is blessed by the pope, too. Man, I seriously missed out on a great souvenir opportunity. I mean, seriously, I could have bought a pencil and given it to someone as a souvenir b/c it would have been blessed by the pope. Luckily I had lots of receipts in my purse, so I don't want anyone to be surprised when they get a receipt as a souvenir...