Rome Day 14 / Leaving for Poland

Day 14
Since I know your all pretty much sick of hearing about that all american breakfast... i decided to save you today and sleep in :) ! Even though it was free, we decided it was better to miss for everyone's sake (the things we do). Our flight was at 7:30pm so we booked a shuttle bus at 5:00pm from central station ---> which would take us to the airport for 6:00 pm.
We arrived at 12:30pm at the Vatican Museum and payed 15 or 20 euro's/ person (ouch). I don't even think we can explain in complete what we saw here! we had to do it extremely quick since it takes 3 hours to walk through, without really even stopping! which means we only would get out in time for us to take the underground back to central station to catch our shuttle. So we walked very quickly through the museum, which takes minimum 1 whole day to go through! Inside the museum the stuff ranged from: statues of greek/roman mythology, mosaic's of great size, painting/sculptures of ceilings and walls throughout the museum, maps of Europe/waterways/heavens/cities in Italy/etc (all these were painted on the wall down a corridor atleast 0.5km long), pottery and other treasures. The highlight to whole museum was the Sistine Chapel

What is the Sistine Chapel?
It is first of all, the last works of Michelangelo (1475–1564) (who went nearly completely blind while painting the room, from splashes of paint that went into his eye during his works), but the main purpose of the chapel is to bring the new Pope into power.

We didn't have much time to appreciate the room, especially since the chapel was beyond fire regulations, as it had more people then air in the room. It was much much smaller then we had thought or imagined and therefore didn't impress us as much as we had hoped. However it is a chapel and is meant to be smaller then your average church.

After the Museum, we once again looked at the time and had to run to make our shuttle. It was 4:15 and we were on the other side of the city. Third time in a row we are running for a bus/train or plane to get to our next location! We made the shuttle by 10 minutes or so, but if we would have missed one subway tram we would not have made it... Lucky us once again!
We arrived at the airport and waited till 7:30 when we found out our plane was delayed one hour. So we waited till 8:30 and jumped on a bus that took us to our plane (this was very cool). The flight was with Central Airwings (polish airline), and was really smooth. At the end of the flight everyone clapped for the pilot ----> which Ola has been trying to convince me of for 6 years. I have never seen it before, ONLY IN POLAND! (those polish are strange)... It was actually kind of nice. Once we landed we waited again 45 minutes for the luggage to actually arrive and then add an extra 15 minutes for our luggage to come through (one of the last ones, yet we were the first to check-in). Ola is very happy now! we're in Poland..... We found her Uncle (Tomek) and his girlfriend (Ania) waiting for us at the gate. He brought Ola some beautiful flowers. They then drove us to her grandfathers (Tadeusz - Ted) in Lodz, 2 hours from Warsaw where we landed (they also live in Lodz). We said our quick hello's/goodbye's and went to sleep! (that is at 2 am)