This is going to be short and sweet - because I'm pretty exhausted from the day. We got up early today to go on a trip to San Gimignano and Siena for the day. San Gimignano is such a neat little place! It's an old medieval town - so when you walk up to it, it looks like something out of a movie. We walked around there for a while and had lunch - and then it was on to Siena! I had heard so many great things about Siena, and it was such a cute little Italian town, ...

Ciao!! I hope you are all having a wonderful day and week so far! Today we went to Santa Croce church - this is another gorgeous gorgeous church in Florence, although a difference between this and others is that it is the actual resting place of so many people - I saw the tomb and memorial of Michelangelo, of Galileo Galilee, Marconi (the guy who invented the radio), Ghiberti (he did the gates of paradise) and sooo many more. I was able to take pictures inside - ...

Ciao Amico! Today was a very good day :) This morning I had a wonderful american-style bagel and cream cheese from this american bakery I found, and after "piddling around" I went to class - class being the San Lorenzo and Medici Chapels! I have been looking forward to seeint these for a while, and I was not disappointed. In addition to listening to my teacher, I also brought along a book I purchased that is the ultimate guide to Florence - it has every...

Buono Sera! (good evening!) Today we finally got to go to the Accademia, to see Michelangelo's David! I wish so much that I could have taken pictures, but it was not allowed. I always knew that the David was very large, but I had no idea just how HUGE it really was! It was so impressive - I literally walked around it for 30 minutes. The detail was another thing that struck me - there were even veins sculpted in the hands, etc. Pretty cool! I also got to see Miche...

Hello yall! Saturday - Sunday we traveled to Venice for the weekend and it was wonderful! I have to say, that so far Venice has been my absolute favorite place I've been too - it's just so quaint and so picturesque. I learned that there are about 455 bridges in Venice - and while I don't think I took a picture of every single one, it was only because I didn't see every bridge, haha. I took over 200 pictures within 36 hours...I guess thats the Cam.ak side of me ;...