ITALY: "Prepare for the emotion!" pt. 2

Second day of touring:

Vatican City

St. Peter's Square

climbing to the top of the cupola (the dome of St. Peter's Basilica) - all 550+ steps

views from the very top of the dome

inside St. Peter's Basilica

Michelangelo's Pieta

Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel

(word to the wise: If you want to see the Sistine Chapel, you have to go through the Vatican Museums.

Buy your tickets online before you go, it will save you from waiting in line for an hour and a half!)

Piazza Navona & the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi

Gelato!

(we had at least one a day, if not two...)

Pantheon

(half of the front was undergoing renovations. boo.)

and after a ridiculously long day of walking all over Rome, we had a delicious dinner with Cousin John and his wife Debbie