Tuesday October 18
"Florence"
We took the train from Milan to Florence. All 3 of us were super excited because we all have heard how beautiful it is. Well we heard right. From the moment we walked out of the train station we had smiles, all the buildings and restaurants were SO cute and pretty. The hotel was only about a ten minute walk from the train station. Our hotel was so fabulous. The concierge man was a gem. He was so welcoming and gave us directions and sights to see in Florence right when we got there and he booked us two musesum visits within 20 minutes of being there. We made reservations at the Academia Gallery and the Ufizzi. Reserving tickets is much easier...skipping the lines was fabulous. We had a lot of time to kill before we went the Academia Gallery so we decided to climb the dome of the Duomo in Florence.
468 steps later we made it to the top. It was so worth the pain in our legs and feet though; the view was breath taking. You could see all of Florence all the way up to the mountains. We sat up there for about 45 minutes just taking it all in, admiring the view and taking pictures. When were making our way to the stairs to leave the funny/scariest thing happened. There was a line to go down the stairs because people are coming up so its basically the patient game; waiting until theres a break in people to head down. This little boy had to be about 6 or 7 comes up the stairs and sees the view at the top step and just screams "THIS IS AWESOME!" His parents were still at the bottom, all of us around him were laughing hysterically it was so funny. THEN he goes to like climb the poles that are seperating the dome platform from the roof. 10 people must have screamed stop because we all thought he was going to go right over the fence and plunge to his death. His parents came running up and he still had the biggest smile on his face.
After we made the climb down the stairs our legs were shaking a little bit. Then we made our way over to the Academia Gallery. The museum was really cool, the ultimate reason we went there was to see the famous Michel Angelo's Statue of David. It is HUGE in real life, I didn't realize how big it actually was. Arielle and Andrea both have taken art history courses so they were in heaven. I thought Arielle was going to faint. It was a pretty amazing sculpture though, I would definitely go back and see it again.
That night we went to dinner and once again had amazing food. I don't think it is possible to have a bad meal in Italy seriously. After that we went to this bar called Astor. It is the bar where they filmed Jersey Shore. It was 2 for 1 Tuesdays which was fabulous. The drinks were good and so was the music. It was a great way to end our first night in Florence.
Wednesday October 19
"Festival de Gelato"
Wednesday we walked all around the city. Florence is fairly small so you can get to almost everywhere by foot. We went to these really pretty gardens where there sculptures, and statues all over the place. It was really pretty; there were a lot of students there with sketch books drawing. The view from the upper part of the gardens was also really pretty. My knees were throbbing still from the hike up the 468 stairs. The girls went in to the Ufizzi museum and I opted out and sat by the model of the sculpture of David and people watched. It was very entertaining actually. We headed back to the hotel to rest before we went to dinner. After dinner we went to the Festival de Gelato, it was just a Gelato place but it had every flavor known to man. It was SO good, I could eat it all day long.
Florence was a gorgeous city. There were a lot of Americans there too. The University of Florence is a big study abroad destination, we saw several American college students. I loved Florence I would go back in a heartbeat. It was so much fun and there was so many things to see and do.
Our next and final stop was Rome...
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