Our First European Vacation to Italy

Troy, Momma, Noah
Vatican City 2016

 My first European vacation to Italy was in the last week of December 2016 with my brother, Troy, and our mother, Annette. Christmas Day (12/25/2016), we flew Delta from Montgomery, Alabama (MGM) to Atlanta, Georgia (ATL) and then across the Atlantic to Rome, Italy (FCO). We were only in Italy for one week and flew back to the United States on January 1st (01/01/2017) with a pretty rough ending,

Vatican City, St. Peter's Basilica and the Sistine Chapel

St. Peter's Square

Friday, December 30, 2016 - We toured Vatican City the next day. Vatican City is not very far at all from our hotel and the Colosseum area. It is just across the River Tiber. We took a taxi there from the Hotel Opera Roma and met our Grayline Tour outside the Vatican (Under the watchful eye of the Pope, I'm sure).