The Vatican and the longest line in the world

The first visit of the Roman adventure was to the Vatican, aka Hogwarts. I call it Hogwarts, because once you are inside you'll notice that the paths between places seem to change constantly. One minute a hallway is open, the next minute it is closed and a different hallway is open. Finding your way can get very confusing. But, before you can find your way, first you must get inside. At 8.30 in the morning, before opening time, the line was, as you can see, quite long.
That works out to about a 2 hour wait. Yikes! Inside the museum, there are many many works of art and artifacts to see. One could easily spend an entire day there. It is, however, ridiculously crowded with people trying to get to the Sistene Chapel. That said, if you get off the path to the Sistene Chapel, it is surprisingly uncrowded.
The section on modern relgious art was especially good.

Next stop was St. Peter's. Quite an impressive site from the exterior. I had planned to go inside, but they weren't letting visitors in at the time and after waiting over an hour without any sign of change, I gave up and moved on to the next thing.

Just remember that when visiting the Vatican, the checking out of the opposite sex is strictly forbidden.

The rest of the pictures from the Vatican in in the gallery.
(For some reason many of the full size images got cut off during upload, not sure why.)