exterior facade of the Porta Pia, just west of our hotel

grabbing a quick breakfast

meeting a kitty on the
walk to the train station

Dana in front of Termini Station

Buon Natale!

Dana is about to walk
through the columns and enter
the Vatican courtyard.

Dana in the Piazza San Pietro

Those buildings house the Vatican Museums.

 Tomorrow night, all that canvas will drop and reveal the Vatican's annual nativity scene.

You must walk around the
Vatican walls to reach the entrance to the Vatican Museums.

On Matt's Vatican trip in Nov '06, the queue for the museums extended all the way to this point and beyond.

the upper stories of
the museum buildings

the entrance to the
Vatican Museums