Our Day at the Vatican - By Isa and Gabi

Our day at the Vatican

By Isa and Gabi

Here we are with our audioguides.

  

Today we went on the subway to get to the vatican. We walked a bit to get there and had about 30 minutes to wait. Luckily for us, they let us in early! We went and got our kids' audioguides. They said it was like a treasure hunt. For masterpieces. We went to look for a lot of different paintings and sculptures. We also went to the Egyptian section and saw a real dead woman. She was a mummy and had been dead for more than 1,000 years. We could see her toes. Mom didn't take a picture. It was gross!

This is Mercury.

This is Perseus after he killed Medusa. She has snakes for hair!

We saw a lot of animal sculptures and paintings. We also saw many paintings of Jesus Christ. He was a baby in a lot of them. We saw so many naked statues! We noticed how well they were carved – they looked like real people, we just didn't like that they were naked!

 

The ceilings were decorated all over.

One of the many paintings of Jesus that we saw.

St. Peter's square.  We saw the window the Pope talks from.

This is the hall of maps.

Mom was super excited to see the Sistine Chapel because she had wanted to go there since she was a little girl. The paintings were amazing. No one can take pictures in there though.  It took Michelango four years to paint the ceiling and four more years to paint the big mural on the wall. Our audioguide taught us lots of things. It also told us that Michelangelo was mad at someone while he was painting the ceiling and he painted that guy with giant donkey ears surrounded by devils on the ceiling somewhere. We didn't find it, but its up there!

By the time we got to the Sistine Chapel our feet were REALLY tired, but mom made us go to Saint Peter's Basilica anyway! It was really big. There were more statues and more paintings in there. It also had La Pieta by Michelangelo.  We then got to see the Papal Swiss Guard. He didn't move a muscle. Creepy.

In St. Peter's Basilica

La Pieta

After we left we got some yummy gelato. Isa had coconut and mint. Gabi and Dad had mint and caramel. Luke had mint and chocolate. Mom had pistachio and chocolate (and the pistachio was the right color, Mr. Hayden.) We love gelato. On the way home dad found a place where we each bought two bracelets. We are very happy and very tired!