Pope's Home

This view of the famous Sistine Chapel came at the end of our trip through the Vatican Museum. Somethings you may not know about the Chapel are:

- Michelangelo created this fresco reluctantly, his prefered medium was sculpting
- The ceiling is one smooth surface the marbel and beams you see are not real, they were painted into the fresco to give the illusion of dimension.
- Later when Michelangelo was 60 years old, he also created the fresco on the end wall (can be seen on Flickr) depicting the final judgement.

We only waited about an hour to enter the Vatican Museum and 30 minutes to enter the Basilica, both short waits considering the throngs of people in Rome for Pasqua (Easter). The closed the Basilica early, not long after we entered which allowed us to watch them set up
for Eater services without a crowd pushing us along. We noticed a boy in jeans and a hoodie, standing, STANDING on the ALTER of the Most important church in Catholicism! He seemed to be "helping", but all we saw was texting.

We finished our day earlier than planned and to avoid the crowd ended up back at our apartment eating left overs with plans to play peanut and people watch at the coloseo later.