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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Bus tour of Italy


We woke up pretty late Sunday morning. We got ready ate breakfast then made our way down to the city bus tour. We began our tour at 10:30am. The weather in Italy is prefect. Not to hot nice cool breeze and my hair finally is calm enough to look nice for once. As we made our way around the city we stopped at a peak overlooking the entire town. At this pit stop there was also a replica of Leonardo Di Vinci "David". The view once again was magnificent. I couldn't take enough photos to truly capture this moment. So after a while I stopped taking pictures and just took it all in and enjoyed the view. Then we finished up the rest of the tour and went to the Academia museum where the actually "David" is on display. We waited in a hour long long to get in but once we made it in we looked for our "David". No pictures were allowed but I still saw people sneaking some in the museum. I couldn't believe how huge the statue was. My friend Anna and I found some seats ad just looked at the front view for about 15 minutes. They we made are way to the back of the statue and sat for another 15 minutes. We wanted a full 360 view of "David". We figured we stood in line for 1 hour, we couldn't just take a glimpse and move on. Throughout the museum were many other statues that looked very very real. One in particular was of a lady that Anna and I thought for sure was going to come to life when we turned away. After the museum we ate at a restaurant and we met some folks from the USA. There is a lot of tourist from the USA in Florence. Every time we say we are from Texas they smile and say "Aww we like Texas". After lunch we looked around some more and then headed back to our hotel. We took a 4 hour "nap". I guess were are all worn out and sleep deprived in Madrid that we had to catch up with our rest.  This really sucks because I wanted to see more of Italy but just didn't have the energy. We woke up from our nap and got ready for dinner and drinks for Monica's Birthday. We went to this plaza square that has many restaurants in each corner. A waiter persuaded us to go in to his restaurant. We said "yes" if there was not any cover charge and our drinks were not expensive. He agreed and walked us to our table. I've leaned you can do a lot of barging in Europe expect at the airport of course. The restaurant was so nice with a great view of the plaza. Afterwards we walked a block over and had a drink at the Hard Rock Cafe. We had a lot of fun and I hope Monica enjoyed her special night as well.



















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