When in Rome...

Yesterday we were actually NOT in Rome most of the day.  We took the train to Pompeii and walked around the ruins, then back to Naples to the National Archaeological Museum.  We came back to Rome and the kids saw a few more sites (particularly the inside of the Pantheon because it had been closed the day before).

Today was a very exhausting day.  We left at 8:30am to get the Metro to the Vatican for a 9:30 entry time (no waiting in lines) to St Peter's Basilica, went directly from there to an 11:00 entry to Vatican Museum and the Sistine Chapel.  They've added quite a bit to it since I was here 7 years ago.  It was interesting but I started to feel like I was in a giant IKEA...it just kept going and going and going...we kept following the arrows but I was beginning to think we would never get to the end!

After that we went to the Capitoline hill, saw Hadrian's column, the Roman Forum and toured the Colosseum.  We got back home around 4:30 and other then a short hop on a bus and the Metro back from the Colosseum, we were standing or walking the entire time!  It's 6:30 and I'm ready to go to sleep for the night...zzzzz