See Us In Italy

- Michelangelo created this fresco reluctantly, his prefered medium
was sculpting
- The ceiling is one smooth surface the marbel and beams you see are
not real, they were painted into the fresco to give the illusion of
dimension.
- Later when Michelangelo was 60 years old, he also created the fresco
on the end wall (can be seen on Flickr) depicting the final judgement.

We only waited about an hour to enter the Vatican Museum and 30
minutes to enter the Basilica, both short waits considering the
throngs of people in Rome for Pasqua (Easter). The closed the Basilica
early, not long after we entered which allowed us to watch them set up
for Eater services without a crowd pushing us along. We noticed a boy
in jeans and a hoodie, standing, STANDING on the ALTER of the Most
important church in Catholicism! He seemed to be "helping", but all we
saw was texting.

We finished our day earlier than planned and to avoid the crowd ended
up back at our apartment eating left overs with plans to play peanut
and people watch at the coloseo later.