Firenze

Well, I know I'm a bit late getting this one out to blog, but y'all have no idea how insane the last week has been. Anyway, Florence was wonderful. We arrived early into the city on the 10th. Since our hotel was not ready for us, we decided to explore the city. We first went to the Medici Chapel which was pretty cool. In the building, there were tombs of some of the family members, a large chapel, and then some of Michelangelo's sculptures. As usual, his work was simply amazing. Then we went back to the center of the city to see Florence's Duomo. This one was made out of green, pink, and cream marble. We've seen those colors on floors and maybe a few walls but never on an entire building. It was truly spectacular. Inside of the church was not that exciting as most of the artifacts had been moved to the museum. We were a bit museumed out, so we did not go. In addition, we went to see the Ponte Vecchio. In Florence, this bridge is the only one left from the Medieval time period because the German's destroyed all but that one when they marched through Florence during WWII. It was a gorgeous bridge that was lined with shops built out the side of the bridge. For the remainder of that day, we just wandered around. Florence is a tiny city that can be explored in a day. Two days if you really go to everything, but by that point in the trip, we were a bit tired of churches and museums.

We left Florence on July 11. However, before that, we went to see the David which is what people say it is. Up til that point, we both thought that we had seen Michelangelo's best work. We were wrong! The David is unreal. Not only is he proportionally accurate, but he is so life like. We stood there for a good ten minutes looking at every side of the David. Going to see that was worth the trip to Florence alone. That afternoon we took the train back to Rome where we stayed the night and then left the next morning.

Italy was amazing. Michael and I loved every minute we spent there. We were so glad that we went because we needed that time together before the craziness of moving set began.