A Trip to Remember – Part 3 of 8

This is the third in my series of posts from my family’s trip to Italy with the St. Mary’s of the Lake Choir from Skaneateles, NY. If you’d like to check out the earlier posts, you can find them by clicking these links – PART1, PART2.

The Vatican Museums:

Day 3 was intended for us to visit the Vatican Museums, the Sistine Chapel and finish with a tour of St. Peter’s Basilica. We had sung in the Basilica the night before for solemn mass, but didn’t get to see the entire church.

Well, man plans and God laughs. For the first couple of days, our tour bus driver, Diego, was a reliable as can be. He was on time and breaking his neck loading and unloading our luggage. He was able to squeeze the bus into places that were unbelievable and was always pleasant.

This happened to be…