Florence.. July 2

    Because we had no reservations, we got in line at 8am at the Ufizzi Museum, famous for housing Sandro Boticelli’s Primavera and Birth of Venus.. and coincidentally a Caravaggio exhibit was also there. We ate breakfast at an outdoor café where the waiter hovered until we put our money with the bill.. thinking we were going to dine and dash? It took about an hour to find the clothing store Zara because everytime we asked an Italian they would point their arm and  say down the street and take a left… not realizing that I am directionally challenged and there are a million alleys to the left… we also strolled through an enormous leather market.. oh how I love the smell of leather… we checked into our hotel.. (yes Barretts dad treated her and I to an amazing hotel room) took a shower.. got into bath robes and slippers.. (got to experience what it was like to have a room with a robe) and took a quick nap.. this was refreshing after a day sprinkled with a little homesickness.. missing my family and friends
        Here is my favorite part of Florence. 12 of us paid 35 euro a person to eat and have endless wine at ilLatini.. what I am about to list is our entire dinner in order of how it came out.
1.      tomato and mozerella
2.      cantaloupe and prosiutto
3.      pasta with red sauce
4.      chicken liver paste on toasted bread
5.      ravioli
6.      tortellini
7.      a tomato basil bread paste thingy
8.      a huge plate to choose from chicken, veal, or beef
9.      roasted potatoes
10.     a collard green kind of thing
11.     biscotti with a dark liquor
12.     custard with strawberries
13.     moscotto
14.      limoncello
once full of a food baby we went to some bar ouside of the Duomo and met some people from Colombia… went to another strange house bar named Twice with a strangely insignificant amount of women.. p.s Italian men like to dance