Today I attacked Vatican City. I use the word attack because a trip to the Vatican takes as much planning as a small military operation. Zack and Alex tagged along which was a bit annoying since by this time they were starting to get on my nerves, Hannah had been spending the pass couple of days flirting it up with Zack so she wouldn?t listen when I suggested ditching them. So I decided to ditch her along with them.

St. Peter?s Basilica is massive. There were all these little tabs on the floor marking where other famous churches end. You could literally fit two Notre Dames inside St. Peter?s. It was really surreal to see Michelangelo?s Pieta. It was behind all this glass and it looked much smaller than I expected but it was still awe-inspiring. This was the first of many times I would be brought to tears today.

The Vatican museum is where all the good stuff is and I must have spent hours wandering around. It was crazy how elaborately the entire building was decorated; I could never have imagined such opulence. The Rafael rooms really shocked me. Every other painting I have seen so far has been disappointingly small, but the School of Athens is massive.

Going into the Sistine chapel for the first time was really mind blowing. I spent so much time studying the ceiling and nothing can compare the real thing. The ceiling was painted so realistically painted I could have sworn I could have reached up and pulled one of Jonah?s dangling toes.