Today was our free day in Florence. We slept in which was the most beautiful thing I've experienced this week...didn't get up until 10..it was amazing. A group of us decided to go to the Petti Palace, which is the palace that the Medicci family lived in when they ruled Florence. It had an amazing art gallery with all shapes and sizes of paintings and sculptures. My favorit piece was a sculpture of a small boy holding a grape vine that wrapped around him. He looked like he was about seven, and it was just such a delicate scene how he was innocently standing there wrapped in a grape vine. The sculpture was by Giovanni Dupre. The tickets that we bought allowed us to walk through the Palentine Gallery where all
the art was kept in the old rooms of the palace. The tickets also covered the royal apartments, which were the Duke and Duchess's rooms, as well as some of the princes and other nobilities. They were so amazing. Every little detail in the rooms were carefully made to be incredibly extravagant. Even some of the chains that held up the chandeliers were wrapped in expensive silks. At the end of the palace is a modern art gallery. Even though I like modern art much better, I was less impressed with that gallery than the rest of the palace. My favorite part was definitely the royal apartments. We were running a little behind schedule when we left the palace, so we quickly stopped at a market for some water and snacks, and booked it back to the hotel. When I got there, I had to wait for Kylee and Michelle to come back from a different market so that we could go look for an electronics store to fix my computer...which by the way has been broken since the day we got here. The first store we went to did not carry any computer equipment, which was contrary to what I had been told by the hotel associates...oh well. This was at about 5:20 and we had to get the Duomo by 6 so that Kylee and Michelle could climb it, so we ran back to the Duomo, stopping quickly at the church apothecary on the way.
We made it to the Duomo just in time for them to climb it. I sat out and waited for them, which proved to be a good experience because I met a little
lady from New York who was waiting for her family. We just sat and chatted about what we were both doing in Europe, and her daughter who is going to be a freshmen at Georgetown in the fall. It was really relieving to have somebody sitting with me who was not a creeper and spoke English. Bonus! From the Duomo we went back to the hotel, packed up our sweaty, smelly, dirty clothes and did laundry for the first time in Europe. I was expecting to be bored and annoyed, but it was actually really fun. We met a man and woman who are travel buddies. The girl lives in Pheonix and the guy lives in Las Vegas and they just meet up every few months to travel. We also met a couple from Chicago. We all just sat and talked at the laundromat and it was surprisingly a lot of fun...plus I now have clean clothes. Whoot!
Today was our free day in Florence. We slept in which was the most beautiful thing I've experienced this week...didn't get up until 10..it was amazing. A group of us decided to go to the Petti Palace, which is the palace that the Medicci family lived in when they ruled Florence. It had an amazing art gallery with all shapes and sizes of paintings and sculptures. My favorit piece was a sculpture of a small boy holding a grape vine that wrapped around him. He looked like he was about seven, and it was just such a delicate scene how he was innocently standing there wrapped in a grape vine. The sculpture was by Giovanni Dupre. The tickets that we bought allowed us to walk through the Palentine Gallery where all 
the art was kept in the old rooms of the palace. The tickets also covered the royal apartments, which were the Duke and Duchess's rooms, as well as some of the princes and other nobilities. They were so amazing. Every little detail in the rooms were carefully made to be incredibly extravagant. Even some of the chains that held up the chandeliers were wrapped in expensive silks. At the end of the palace is a modern art gallery. Even though I like modern art much better, I was less impressed with that gallery than the rest of the palace. My favorite part was definitely the royal apartments. We were running a little behind schedule when we left the palace, so we quickly stopped at a market for some water and snacks, and booked it back to the hotel. When I got there, I had to wait for Kylee and Michelle to come back from a different market so that we could go look for an electronics store to fix my computer...which by the way has been broken since the day we got here. The first store we went to did not carry any computer equipment, which was contrary to what I had been told by the hotel associates...oh well. This was at about 5:20 and we had to get the Duomo by 6 so that Kylee and Michelle could climb it, so we ran back to the Duomo, stopping quickly at the church apothecary on the way. 
We made it to the Duomo just in time for them to climb it. I sat out and waited for them, which proved to be a good experience because I met a little 
lady from New York who was waiting for her family. We just sat and chatted about what we were both doing in Europe, and her daughter who is going to be a freshmen at Georgetown in the fall. It was really relieving to have somebody sitting with me who was not a creeper and spoke English. Bonus! From the Duomo we went back to the hotel, packed up our sweaty, smelly, dirty clothes and did laundry for the first time in Europe. I was expecting to be bored and annoyed, but it was actually really fun. We met a man and woman who are travel buddies. The girl lives in Pheonix and the guy lives in Las Vegas and they just meet up every few months to travel. We also met a couple from Chicago. We all just sat and talked at the laundromat and it was surprisingly a lot of fun...plus I now have clean clothes. Whoot! 
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