Interesting Fact About St Peter's Basilica...At Least, To Me

 The year was 1992, around this exact time of year, thirty years ago. I and around forty other students from  the University of Utah traveled to Italy as part of an a'cappella choir tour. I saw many cool things on that trip...

One of the coolest things I saw was St Peter's Basilica.

So many amazing things inside.

I took several pictures, but I did not have time to find them, so I accessed a website about visiting what was at one time the world's biggest church. You can access the site where I got the above picture by clicking: HERE.

It's hard to express--even in pictures--the enormity of the building, but I'll give it a try. It you look at the lettering in gold placed high on the walls, those letters are each six-feet tall. Imagine a six-foot tall man standing by one of those letters and they are the same length. I remember hearing that factoid from our tour guide and it blew me away.

Last night I blogged about, well...blogging. Since we moved and since we don't do a lot of things away from the house, I've been blogging so much about the house and yard work and other boring stuff. So, I thought I'd write about something I found interesting that maybe you--good reader--might find interesting, too. 

Oh, and a side-interesting factoid. The tour guide told me something else that blew my mind--in that entire building, there is not one drop of paint. Everything inside is mosaic...tiles.

Oh, and our choir got to sing a Catholic mass in the Basilica, too.

Like I said...amazing.

Remembering A Random Day...Thirty Years Ago

 The Date, February 22 means a lot in our family. I mean, it's a cool date 2/22, but other than that, it's the day my wife and I had our first date. Of course, she was not my wife at the time...that came several months later.

This week, the date 2/22/22 came up. It's a very cool date, but it also means that it's been thirty years since that first date. And because I kept a daily journal at that time, I was able to look up the day and see what happened. Because I wrote down events of the day, there are some things I had forgotten about the day.

I do remember she and I went to a University of Utah Men's Basketball game. I forgot who they played...on the ticket I found the answer. Wyoming. I remember not liking that team. They'd come into Salt Lake and fill the cheap seats at the Huntsman Center. They had good teams back then and when Wyoming would win, their fans were so loud. Such was the cased 2/22/92. Wyoming beat Rick Majerus's Utes bad.

The game started late so before the game, my wife and I went bowling. It makes me laugh a little, imagining my wife and I going bowling, then going to a university basketball game now...probably not going to happen.

Back then, I kept a daily journal. It's something I've continued doing and I'll write about today before I go to sleep. When I wrote my entry back on 2/22/92, I had no idea that the person I took bowling then to a Utah loss would end up being my spouse or that we'd be together thirty years later. That's one of the cool things about keeping a journal, This past week, most people enjoyed experiencing 2/22/22. For us, it meant more.