Wednesday
Wednesday was Vatican day! We went to the Colosseum very early in the morning to be at the front of line, but that doesn’t tend to work as well with the Vatican—it can take hours to get in. The easier way to deal with the lines is to wait until lunchtime, but that doesn’t leave you with anywhere near enough time to see even just the highlights. We’d been trying to find a good day to do the Vatican while dealing with this problem—and then I read in a guidebook that there’s a papal service at Saint Peter’s Basilica on Wednesday mornings. Score! We reasoned that the service would keep most people in the Basilica rather than the Vatican museums, so we hopped on the bus to the Vatican—and found practically no line at all! Actually, the museums were more empty than I or Dad have ever seen before—we got astoundingly lucky.
