YOu know how I said earlier that Florence is like downtown LA but with more sparkle? Ya, well Rome is like downtown LA with I bit more craziness and Florence is to Rome like what Pasadena is to LA. It's very busy here. You need to be careful every time you crops the street and just wait for an opening to cross. The cars and motorcycles will always stop for you just as long as the SEE YOU. There are sooooo many people here. Tourists, locals, you name it and there ...

Today was our last full day in Florence. Our original idea was to go to the Academia to see the real David, then hit up Brunesschi's Dome and climb the 463 steps to the top to see all of Florence and walk through the town one last time. We were incredibly motivated, but soon realized we wouldn't do even half of that. Lol. We had reservations to go to the Academia so we were off early for that. While the whole museum itself it fairly small (in comparison to the U...

Today we set off on our wine tour to Tuscany! To start off the morning, I fell down a flight of stairs. Lol.... I'm ok, but as my Grammy says, Grace is not my middle name (and it was before I started drinking in case anyone was wondering, I'm just a clutz.) So with my knee all bruised up, and Sean making sure to take the stairs before me from here on out so as to catch me, we were off! Tuscany is about a 30 min drive from Florence and we were mainly in the city...

Today we went to the Uffizi Gallery - Florence's largest art museum. I had pre ordered tickets and reservations were at 9am. We were so glad that we bought the tickets ahead of time because already the line at 8:45 was really long and we were able to skip completely past it and got right in. The Uffizi is really big and has been Florence's art museum since the 18th century. We saw many painitngs from Botticelli such as the Birth of Venus, Raphael's self portrait...

We have made it to Florence........ I have to admit, we were both ready to leave Venice. Two and a half days really is enough there. It is absolutely beautiful, yes, but we were beginning to get tired of getting lost constantly. Lol. Sean knew his way around better then I did. If I lost him, I would have been screwed and just would have started asking any person around me "Dove Hotel Pantalon?" (Where is Hotel Pantalon?) We were ready for part three of our adven...