So no mass with the pope. After two weeks of making and changing plans, there were no places left on the late train to Rome via Milan. Same case with Lourdes next weekend, the feast day of St. Bernadette. I was going to see again about this weekend, which happens to fall on the feast day of our Lady of Lourdes, but after discussing what dates were best to go for a full twenty minutes, going twice to the same ticket counter with the same clerk with whom we had communication issues (she switched to English once but it didn't help.), trying to figure out why she was charging me 125 euros with my Eurail pass while my passless friend was getting charged 118 euros, being shushed when I kept wanting to know why are you charging me 125 euros when the last tickets cost me 45, and finally being told that the computer made an error and charged my card with 80 euros Hannah should have paid and so Hannah now owed me 80 euros, I decided that it was time to stop messing with things and just go. It seems the more I try to modify my travel plans the fewer options I have because there are fewer tickets available and so...time to go where the road leads.

Theoretically the audience tickets are still good though :)

Life's good too.