The Louvre - Paris

We feel really luck to have been able to go to the Vatican see the museum there, the Sistine Chapel and everything else there and and now to follow that up by seeing the Louvre in Paris is amazing.  I know I must sound like a broken record but go for the tour on this one as well.  If you are like me you probably do not really know what you are looking at, and if you know what you want to see finding it is another story.  Our guide was great, she kept us moving along and got us to all of the highlights.  Some of the highlights pictured below that we saw included, the Mona Lisa, the Winged Victory, and Venus de Milo.

There she is, it's good to be tall  if you want to get a look at her.

The Mona Lisa is there somewhere.

The Winged Victory

Venus de Milo - Even she has to look out for pickpokets!

 The treasures in the Louvre aren't the only things to look at, the building itself is amazing. 

The Vatican

One of the many cool things about visiting Rome is that you can also very easily visit the smallest independent state in the world both by area and population, Vatican City.  Of course the Vatican is home to the Pope and Catholicism but you don't have to be Catholic to appreciate it.  The seco
nd largest museum behind the Louvre in Paris is there, the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's Basilica. The lines there are crazy so like we did at the Colosseum we joined a tour that allowed us to skip the lines and have a tour of the museum, the Sistine Chapel and St. Peter's.  Even without skipping the line the tour would have been worth it to hear the history, especially to hear about Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel and the Last Judgement. It's a pretty crazy store and let us know different things we should look for, sadly no pictures were allowed in the Sistine Chapel.