Day 4 (May 6) Vatican Museum Visit

We spent the entire day at the Vatican Museum.  I had purchased tickets from an online source and it was necessary to go to their office, check-in, follow a guide 6-8 blocks to the museum entrance, get one's check in document scanned and assuming it scanned properly, an official entry ticket was handed to you.  This all went well even considering that the line at the check in office was quite long.  The clerk wouldn't accept an electronic copy of our online purchased ticket so I had to email it to her, and then she booked us into a tour that departed 2 hours later.  When we saw our 10am  group was still here, Angela got us put back in the 10am group.

Once inside the Vatican, we wandered on our own through the museum.  While we were there one year earlier, we weren't able to visit the Egyptian museum, so that was high on our list to visit.  And we succeeded.  After lunch we wanted to visit the side of the museum that housed the Sistine Chapel, and that portion of our visit was extremely crowded as that section was closed because of a visit by the German President, Angela Merkel, whose motorcade we saw earlier when walking to the museum.  We did spend more time in the Sistine Chapel as we were an hour or so before closing.  

After our visit we caught the Subway back to our lodging and purchased some simple food items for dinner.