Wednesday, October 5, 2011

The Vatican and Sistine Chapel:

Sistine Chapel
WOW!  The first thing we didn’t expect was that to get into this place we would be queuing several hundred meters away from the entrance.  Once we braved the metro again and found the entrance to the Vatican – we started to work our way to the “end” of the line.  Let’s just say, once we went a quarter of a mile and had probably another quarter or half mile to go, I stopped and said we would either be paying a “skip the line” fee or bagging this part of the trip…..boy am I glad we opted to for the “skip the line” fee.  The Vatican is amazing and we only saw a small portion.  The Sistine Chapel really lived up to its reputation and it was incredible to see it with my own eyes.  The girls were glued to their audio devices (so cute!) and kept telling us all about what they were learning.  The whole self guided tour lasted every bit of five hours and the only reason we stopped was tiredness and we had to still catch the train to Tuscany.  Awesome!
On our way to Florence


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