On Monday, we had a 3:30 train to go to Florence, so we planned to spend the morning at the Vatican. We arrived at the Vatican at 8:30 because we knew there would be long lines. We waited in line for an hour, only to get to the front and find out that we had waited in the reservations line. So we started walking toward the other line. And we kept walking. And kept walking. For 20 minutes. And we still couldn't see the end of the line. We were getting worried because we knew there was no way we'd get in. Then we heard a man offer an English tour. We stopped to listen to his offer. It was 45 euros (but 35 with a student ID, which we all had) for a 3-hour tour of the Vatican, and we got to skip the lines. At that point, we knew that this was the only way we'd get to see the Vatican, so we decided to take the tour. It was a great choice. The tour was very informative, and we saw so much. The Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica were amazing, as was much of the artwork in the Vatican Museum.
After this, we raced back to our hotel room to grab our bags and head to the train station. We had some trouble finding our train because we didn't realize that Florence only a stop on the train and that Milan was the ultimate destination. But we were able to ask someone at the information booth for help and he pointed us to the right platform. (By the way, almost everyone we encountered in Rome spoke English.) So we found our train and were on our way to Florence.
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