Rome day 1

We caught the early, fast train to Rome and got there in just over an hour! We caught a cab - not easy in rome - Mommy figured out a way to beat the line and flagged down a cab on the road. Since we were running tight on time, we checked into the hotel and immediately grabbed another cab back in to town. We got to our meeting place for our tour by noon and found our guide. She was born in south Africa, but has been in Italy for 13 years. We were very lucky and had no line for the Vatican - we walked right in and after a quick intro about the Sistine Chapel, we stopped for lunch. We then spent the nexr 4 hours touring only a small portion of the enormous Vatican museum, ending up in the sistine chapel at 4pm. The cahpel closed at 4:30, and we made our way outside and then saw the basilica. We were pretty worn out and decided to get dinner at the hotel - caught a cab "home", ate a relaxing dinner and called it a day.