So last Wednesday we went to Florence to visit the Accademia to see Michelangelo's statue of David. After that...which wow statue of David...didn't know we could spend and hour and a half talking about one thing. I am so glad Dr. O saved us!!
After that Dr. O took us to Fiesole, which is a really nice town just like a 30 min bus ride from Florence. There we saw a Roman theater and a Bath complex. Which was really cool, but we also had a picnic lunch which was a lot of fun and a great moment to just relax and enjoy our surroundings.
After we got done at Fiesole around...4. I made my way to the ponte vecchio to by me my leather gloves!! I got two pair, a brown set and a black set! I was very excited about that, because tomorrow (Wednesday) We are going to Florence again to go to the Uffizi and I am going to by me a leather jacket!!!This past weekend we went to Verona with Dr. O for our archeology class. It was a great weekend...except for a few delays. haha Well our train left at 9:42 in the morning on friday...we arrived at the train station at 9:42...so we kind of missed the train. haha Luckly he was not mad, mostly due to the fact we now had to figure out on our own how to get to Verona. Sad to say, but the next train to Florence was not till 11:06...so we had to sit in the train station in Castiglion for an hour. Me laughing and a few others worried we planned out our plan of action upon our arrival in Florence.
We arrived in Florence at 12:54...we quickly got off the train and made our way to the self service station to buy tickets from Florence to Verona. Well we almost bought the first train..but because of our ability to make a train on time we decided not to go with our first choice because it left in 3 min. So our next one was leaving in 30 min. A time we were all very comfortable with, which this train would put us in to Verona at around 4.
Needless to say that was a very long train ride...but we played cards, slept and talked.
Once we arrived we checked into our hotel and put our stuff down. Ran into Dr. O outside the hotel and talked to him about what we missed...which luckily all we missed was going to see Juliet's balcony. So seeing how we missed it we learned where this balcony was and was on our way to finding it.
While searching for the balcony which we found...we found a great candy shop...where it had POPCORN!!!!
I have been craving popcorn for who knows how long, and I finally found some!!! Well the grocery store has popcorn...but because we don't have a microwave we can't cook it.
So I finally got popcorn and it was sooooo gooooddd!!!
We had a very short day after we got to Verona...because we all knew that Saturday would be a very long day so we went to bed very early. It was so great to wake up in the morning having like 10 hours of sleep!!
The next day we walked all around Verona...doing 15+ miles. OOOO If you did not see my facebook status...I have lost 20 pounds since being in Italy! I was very excited to check the scale the other day, and finding out my weight! :)
So you know...if you rub her boob it gives you good luck!! So I am not being creepy...lol
Verona is such a beautiful town, and has a lot to offer. For lunch on Saturday we got Mexican food!!!! It was no tex mex...but when you have not had Mexican food in for like 3 months...anything is good! It was so good!! That night though for dinner Dr. O treated us all to Chinese food. It as well as the Mexican food was so freakin good!! The ++++'s of Verona they have more mixture of food then just Italian even if it is fake Chinese and Mexican!
This weekend was wonderful and April hasn't even started yet and the rest of this semester is going to go by really fast!! With Austria this weekend, and then Barcelona, Rome, Madrid, then somewhere...and then we are done! Insane!!!
Till next time!! Ciao!!!
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