Today we left Rome and headed for Florence *our main destination*. On the way to Florence we took a few hours and stopped off at Orvieto which is an old medival town. Once we left Orvieto we traveled on the train towards Florence, we were excited to sit in first class on the train : air conditioning and comfortable seats. Once we got to Florence, we snagged a taxi and headed off for our hotel that was near the Duomo. I could not believe the view we had of the D...

Well today lets just say that I'm glad that I was smart and wore tennis shoes.. on the other hand it was hot as hell in jeans. Today was very interesting for all of us. It began as we once again got on the bus by 7:30 am and headed off for another field trip. This time we didnt really know what we were getting ourselves into with the field trip. We first stopped at the bottom of this georgious hill and looked up at the beautiful city above us.. the joke was that ...