In Golf you always want that last drive of the day to be a good one because “it will make you want to come back”.  That’s what today was … a long straight drive.  The Sistene chapel and St Peters Basilica. We started the tour at the Vatican museum.  It was full of sculptures, paintings and tapestries.  Then we were lead into the Sistine chapel where Michelangelo painted the ceiling.  We used a Rick Steve’s app on our phones to have Rick lead us thru the different parts of the paintings on the ceiling.  It was mesmerizing. The fascinating thing for me was how small the actual chapel was (or seemed).  The whole chapel was134 ft long by 44 ft wide and 68 ft high.  Then the people inside were elbow to elbow which made it seem smaller yet.  I guess I had always imagined it would be a much bigger place.  No pictures were allowed in this chapel.

We then found the “secret doorway” to St Peter’s basilica (thanks, Dave! 🙂 ). 

This is the biggest church in the world.  It measures at 730 ft long 500 ft wide and 452 ft high at its tallest place.  We used the Rick Steve’s app once again to lead us thru St Peter’s Basilica. 

We got out of that at 4 pm and our feet were tired.  We found a nice place for drinks, bruchetta and pizza then we had to hussle off to pick up tickets for the papal audience tomorrow.  The nun who gave us the tickets said we should be there by 7 am to get a good seat and that it would last until after noon. Not sure if that’s gonna happen or not.  Besides, we’ve already seen “Papa Francesca”. We were near the Trevi Fountain so we stopped to see that.  It is spectacular at night all light up.  Then it was stopping for our nightly gelato before turning in for the night.