It was a year ago this week that Scott and I were in Rome. Even though we're Jewish, I'm more than a little envious of my sister, who's currently living in Rome. She gets a more or less front-row seat for all the Papal festivities.
It's fascinating to watch one of the world's oldest and largest institutions change hands. She'll probably find it more of an inconvenience than anything else (stores closing, streets being shut down, even larger than normal throngs of tourists, etc) but we'll see.
