Day 4- Firenze (Florence)

So today, we go to Florence by taking the train. We ended up on the local train that made a lot stops and took about two hours. On the ride when I wasn't reading, I noticed the amount of graffiti. It was everywhere on the trains, the walls and buildings. What I did like about their graffiti was that it was more than words, but drawings and lots of bright colors. It looked more like art, however, I have no clue what the words or images mean.

Once in Firenze, we past by the Duomo of Firenze. It was so magnificent to see all of the beautiful sculptures and paintings still intact on the walls. I have to go come back, so I can go inside and look out from the tower. We then proceeded to the cathedral where the fake David statue is outside. The real David statue is inside, protected from the acid in the rain. It is incredible, I am in awe looking at these sculptures. All the things that I have studied and looked at in text books are alive in front of me.

We go to the Uffiizi museum, I have never seen so many paintings of Madonna and Child. Most of the painting are gigantic, painted in 1200-1500s and where taken from churches. They are beautifully painted, bright colors and lots of gold frames. I think what really blew me away was the Birth of Venus and Spring painting by Sandro Botticelli. It is the painting that I remember studying the most and so worth the trip to see.

So we all are suppose to meet back at 3:15pm, we lose our first person that doesn't have a cell phone. We hang out for a while, but we end up leaving someone behind to try to wait for her. We go to another church, there are so many churches in Italy, it impossible to see them all. We also go over to a science museum, which was kind of whack in my opinion. We looked at lots of animals, I had never seen so many birds. Then at the end were wax replicas of the human body and how it looks inside. We did find our missing person.

After we are free do do as we like. So we hang outside at a bar, the day was very beautiful. It has been raining and very cloudy, since we got to Italy. So we all enjoy the great weather. Then we hang out on the bridge, take pictures and have wine. The second best part of the trip is appertivi. So they don't do happy hour, but during the hours of 7-10pm they give out free food at bars if you buy a drink. So for six people, we paid 45 euro to have dinner and a drink. The food was great, it was all kind of meat, bread, pastas and vegetables. It was so many people, they were outside on the street, hanging out by the bridge, but everybody was happy!

So somehow we make back for the last train at 10pm. We drink more wine and I drift off to sleep. When I wake up we are back in Lucca. Some of the others go to a pub, but I head back to the apartment. Once I unlock the second door, I see a man in our doorway. I'm thinking "what the fuck!!" I hate how these serious moments kills your buzz. It was my professor, I'm thinking "why are messing with the lock, you should be sleep, we left you like 3 hours ago!"

Well it turns out that he put his key in our door, which it didn't work and it broke off in our lock. He had jimmied our door and at least now I could get into my apartment. By now it's midnight and I really wanna go to sleep. So he's going back and forth, tying different things to jimmie his door, but his wasn't as easy as ours. So finally at like 1:30am, I tell him I'm going to bed, he should just crash on the couch. He keeps trying, I close my door and go to sleep. My buzz is totally over!