Teeny Tiny's Travel Tuesdays: Vatican City

Last Tuesday, Teeny Tiny shared with us some of his favorite pictures of classical and ancient Rome. This Tuesday, he wanted to share day two of his time in Rome: Vatican City. The Vatican is of course full of glorious treasures, from the ancient to the modern, but the Swiss Guard make it difficult to capture the more interactive photographs that Teeny Tiny prefers.

Consequently, he got no photographs of himself climbing on a Bernini (and he sensibly stopped his traveling companions from climbing on any other pieces of artwork).

He had a marvelous time exploring the nearly endless art-filled passages of the museums. He saw Egyptian and Greek sculpture, including the marvelous Laocoon.

He contemplated Raphael's School of Athens and paused with the masses to wonder at the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo's Last Judgment.

He kept running into people in the Gallery of Maps. It took much persuasion to get him to leave the gallery of the gods because the sculptures were the least teeny tiny things he had ever seen.

When we left the museums, he took a moment to mail some postcards.

Teeny Tiny's next stop was St. Peter's Basilica, again, not so teeny tiny. He climbed to the top to take in the vistas of the seven hills.

He needed a break or two, but he proudly made it, and his stature helped him maneuver amongst the multitudes of people who decided to pack themselves around the lantern at the same time.

Inside the cathedral, he marveled at the Pieta, a bunch of dead popes, and the remarkable movement of fabric captured in marble.

Teeny Tiny ended his day in Vatican City as all days in Roe should end: he found himself a spot in the square to sit and watch the people. A small boy chased a pigeon, and the smallest of Ernies thought about his old buddy Bert. It was a good day.