After the marathon, we trained to Firenze (Florence to us non-Italians).
When we left the hotel, we had to clown-car it to the train station, and poor Brad got folded into the trunk with the luggage. The train was very exciting, busy and confusing. But, once we boarded, the scenery was lovely. When we got to Florence, we walked to our little hotel down the street. Florence is beautiful! Our hotel was very cute and had a great view of the piazza, a park where locals walked their dogs.
We toured around and sampled the fair in Florence. On one outing, we walked all the way to the bronze replica of the David in Piazza Michelangelo. You can see an amazing view of the city from there. Then, we attempted to blend in and took the bus back to our hotel. We didn't even know how to buy bus tickets, and were quickly found out for tourists.
We also rode the Hop-On, Hop-Off bus around the city to see some of the sites and the countryside. We visited the Duomo, a huge and beautiful cathedral, which is one of the tallest churches in Europe. Spectacular and mind boggling. We also stood in line on a tiny street, that looked like any other street in Florence, for a chance to see Michelangelo's David. The museum isn't particularly amazing, but the David is overwhelming. Fascinating. There are also some musical instruments in the museum, and even an extremely old natural horn! French horn players eat your heart out.
More on Florence later!
R
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Isn't Firenze a Harry Potter centaur?
Yay Becca!!
So? Any Harry Potter centaurs in Firenze?
By the way, a few weeks after the last Harry Potter book came out, I got a message at work to call Rufus Scrimgeour about building maintenance. I was getting ready to reverse-crank-call the number they left when one of my co-workers had the presence of mind to look him up in the U of A staff directory. Heh heh heh. Turns out a Rufus Scrimgeour really DOES work for the University of Alberta. Wonder how the last 8 months have been for him?
HAHA!!! That is awesome!
Becca, you should really get on writing children's books and making billions of dollars so we can sponge off of you. I'll harvest you some thoughts from my idea farm if you'd like. I always thought it would be cute to have a story about Merlin's brother, Zeplin, the actual magical boy in the family. Of course, I thought he should be abducted by aliens who are trying to steal all the magic in the universe. I have problems.
Somebody should wake my wife up... she's been passed out on the couch for two hours! I'm boooored!
B.E.
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