The endless maze that is the Vatican museum

For our last day in Rome we all decided to see the Sistine Chapel.  It was a hard decision since the tickets are expensive and there are reports of the line being hours long to get in.  A lot of services are offered to expedite the line waiting, for an extra 4 euro per person, but we weren't keen on that idea.  After doing a little research it turns out that the entrance to the Vatican museum (where the Sistine Chapel is located) usually doesn't have a line after noon.

The awesome graffitied metro we took in Rome.

As it turned out, we didn't have to wait in line at all!  We arrived around noon, walked straight in to buy our tickets and were off to the museum.  Sweet!  Now all we had to do was walk to the Sistine Chapel, which was a lot farther than we were expecting.

One of the many painted ceilings in the Vatican museum

After being forced to walk through most of the museum through the cunning use of ropes and guards, it was an hour and a half later before walking into the Sistine Chapel.  We were all exhausted and cranky at being forced to see the entire museum just to get to the one thing we wanted.  Somehow we got seats along the edge for all four of us and rested while looking at a ceiling painted over five hundred years ago.

Look, now you don't have to go to see it yourself.

We left the museum exactly two hours after entering it and were hungry for lunch.  Walking back to the metro station we found a cute little restaurant with outdoor seating to eat lunch at.  Back around the parent's hotel we had gelato before Andy and I boarded our train to Naples, thus ending our italian adventure with Andy's parents.

Bye Mom and Dad! See you in a month!