Once we got into the Vatican Danielle and I headed straight to the Sistine Chapel. Of course no cameras or talking was allowed so I am not able to share with you all :( The Chapel though was out of this world beautiful. Each painting had so many details that unless you painted it yourself you could not see it all. Needless to say my neck has a kink from looking straight up for so long. I was surprised that for as old as it is the colors are still so vibrant.
Unfortunately once you leave the Sistine Chapel you can not re enter the Vatican, I wish we knew that earlier because there are so many museums in there that we missed out on. Grr
From there we visited Saint Paul's church which was so over the top and overwhelming that I was completely speechless. All the statues inside are enormous, the Jesus statue in the picture is at least 15 feet tall all carved from marble. In the church w walked through the pope's tombs. There were cubicle like boxes throughout that were individually dedicated to a different pope. The tombs typically were are large marble caskets with a carved statues of themselves laying in the sleeping position on top. Then on top of the carved statue they dressed them with their fancy robes, hats and shoes. The last tomb on the way out was for Pope John Paul II who died in 2005. There was a prayer place right in front of his tomb where tons of people were kneeling (priests, nuns, and common people) all mourning, crying, and praying for him. It was, for me, very eerie and put me in a weird indescribable mood. Now we wait for Spiros and go to the Trevy fountain and Spanish steps for some shopping and coin wishing for love! <3
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