Rome- Day 2

Today, we woke up around 9 am and had some fruit for breakfast from the hotel. Then, we made our way to the metro to go see the Trevi Fountain. Despite the hectic crowd, this was the most beautiful site we saw today. We also each threw a coin in the fountain and made a wish!

After we saw the fountain, we roamed around for a while looking for a place to eat, and we finally found a quaint pizza place. The pizza at this place was wayyy better than the pizza we ate for lunch the day before. 

After eating, we made our way back to the metro to get to the Vatican, Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica. As soon as we got off the metro a woman came up to us asking if we had a reservation for the Vatican, which we didn't because you have to make the reservation online 72 hours ahead of time, and we did not know this until we tried to book it last night. She was trying to scam us into going on a tour through her company so we wouldn't have to wait in lines by paying 40 euro. We told her we were just going to try our luck in the "2 hour lines" at the museum instead because we didn't want to pay that much because it only costs 8 euro to get into the Vatican and Sistine Chapel. Only making it a little further down the street, we ran into a man telling us the same thing. He kept saying the lines were 2 hours long and we really should just buy a pass through them for 35 euro. After hearing this from several people we finally decided to just pay the 35 euro to not wait in the lines. Little did we know, as soon as we got to the Vatican and made our way up the stairs to get our tickets scanned, there was absolutely NO line to buy a ticket. At this point, after sitting in the sun for about an hour listening to the tour guide tell us about the Vatican, which is it's own country, and then pushing our way through the crowds in the Vatican, we were completely over it. Finally, we made it out after a 3 and a half hour tour. 

After we left the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel, we saw St. Peter's Basilica from the outside, and then we made our way back to the metro to go home. Once we got home, we took a nap and then had dinner at a restaurant a few streets over from our hotel. Tomorrow, we are going to see the Pantheon, the Spanish Steps and the National Roman Museum before we head to Florence!