Saturday: Today Alex and I went to Florence. We got up at 5:30 to get ready and get some food from Pascucci’s before we got on the 6:30 buss to the train station. We thought our train was a direct train from Rome to Florence but when we got there we found out that those were an extra 20 euros. We did not want to spend that money so we asked someone at the desk what train we should take and it turns out that we need to take the train that would go to Milan but made stops in several cities. We also found out that we had to be in the standing room only. I guess that wasn’t too bad it you think about it. We never wanted to be in standing room again so we decided to book tickets for the other trains so we would have seats so that is all settled. We also found out that when we got to the Florence station we had to take a 5 minute train that would take us to the station in the middle of the town. That was easy. We got to Florence at about noon so Alex and I decided to get something cheap to eat. We found this little fast food kind of place and go the most amazing pizza I have ever had in my life. The one slice we each got was the size of our heads. But it was so fantastic! After we got the pizza we set off to find Il Duomo. On our way we found all these adorable little shops. We went in a few and Alex even got a super cute skirt in one. When we found Il Duomo we decided that we didn’t want to wait in line to go in all day so we didn’t end up seeing inside. We then set off to find the museum that had Michelangelo’s statue David. On the way we went in all of the leather shops we could find. The best one we went in had an adorable old man in it who sold Alex a wallet for her dad. He said the one of the best things we had heard in a while. He said “For your father 25, for your boyfriend thousands.” He gave Alex a 60% discount for her wallet because it was on sale but it was also for her dad. He was hilarious. Went we made it to the museum the line was so long! Alex and I thought that we weren’t going to get in. we went to the ticket office and decided to try to reserve a time slot for us to go to the museum. I turned out that the next available time slot was in 15 minutes at 1. How could you resist something like that? It was almost like the museum wanted us to go to it. So we decided to go into a few other shops before our museum slot. We went in this little shop where this man was making leather bracelets foe 1 euro. I loved them and couldn’t resist! That’s how I got my leather from Florence, a 1 euro purple leather bracelet. I love it. The museum was really cool! I’ve seen David before but there is nothing like seeing him again. He is huge! After the museum I successfully navigated my way to the straw market from my memory of going 2 years ago. It was packed. Alex got a leather backpack and I got to take a picture just like my one 2 years ago with the pig. You rub its nose for good luck. I had to do this not only for myself but also for my parents. I might as well just make it a tradition if I ever make it back there again. After the straw market we made our way to the piazza that had the fake David statue and a lot of other replicas. It was so crowded that we really didn’t stay there for too long and decided to make our way down a side street to the less touristy part of Florence. We got some fantastic gelato. I got vanilla and tiramisu and Alex got coffee and caramel. It was so good! We made our way down the street looking at the little shops. Alex got some fantastic boots for 100 euro (way out of my price range for anything). We even found a little record shop. It was so cool. The best part was that it was playing the Beetles. Shout out to my friends back at goo old SMICK, Schmid in Cali, and Cathy in France because that is like our favorite band ever. It made me miss them so much! After that we went to Santa Croce to look at it. It was 5 euro to get in but it was totally worth it. Inside were the graves of Galileo, Michelangelo, and a ton of other well-known people. Alex was basically freaking out the whole time we were there. After we finished in the church we were just going to catch an early train back to Rome and just get dinner there but when we got to the train station we saw that were was a train leaving for Siena in 5 minutes and we decided to just go there for dinner. It was spur of the moment but so much fun! We got there, got some dinner, and got the next train back to Rome. We got back to Rome at around 11 PM and back to our hotel by like 11:30 PM. Right when I got back I wanted to talk to my brothers about this trip but none of them were online and that made me a little mad. I just figured that they were at mass or something.
Sunday: There was only one thing that really happened today so I didn’t want to make a whole post for a few sentences. One of the girls went to Greece for the weekend to visit her boyfriend from Notre Dame who is studying abroad there and they got ENGAGED!! It might be the most exciting thing that has ever happened on the Rome program with SMC. We are all so excited for her and her fiancé! I can’t wait to meet him in 2 weeks when he comes to Rome to visit her. Well that’s all that really happened today. Oh yeah and Congrats to the new Mrs. Sara O’Hara!! I figured out where my family was. They were at a wedding for one of our family friends daughters. I really wanted to go but maybe I can go to their other daughters or their oldest sons in the next year.
ciao bella!
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