Day 41 2/21/12

Day 41 2/21/12

Today was an early morning. Today we were traveling to Florence! I got up around 7-7:30am and took a shower and got dressed and packed up my stuff. We had to be checked out by 10am. Then we went to the train station, which was right up the block from us. Turns out Italia Rail is a lot more confusing then you would think. Then there was the complication that Michelle did not print out her ticket and ended up having to buy a new one since she could not find her code to show she bought a ticket. We finally got a bit at McDonald and guess who we ran into? The Londoners from the night before, they were there to catch a train to Naples to see the Chelsea football match. The whole train thing was just a mess. Then our train got delayed for at least five minutes and it kept changing. Finally we got on the train and I pretty much fell asleep on the train until I got awoken by the conductor to give them my ticket. Then around 2ish pm we arrived in Florence. We were trying to find out hostel when we asked two older men if they could tell us what direction to go. One of the men ended up just walking us down there which I thought was very nice of him. We got to the hostel, settled in and decided we would meet up with Krista. We waited for at least 30 minutes for her to arrive. Then we headed towards the Academia Gallery and on the way in the Doma Square we got some a late lunch and an early dinner. The food was not bad but the waiter gave a bit of attitude at some points. Its amazing how little the waiters come to check up on you in Europe while in the U.S waiters come over to you constantly. Then after that we went to the Acadamia Gallary which had the actual statue of David. It was an amazing piece of work. Just last semester ago my art history teacher was teaching us about him. Now I get to see I have seen the real work in person. It was quite amazing. After that we went to go get some Gelato. Gelato is always amazing. Then after that we went to the train station to Mcdonalds since some of the girls had to use the toilets. Then Jordan and I were going to split from the group to go check out the bridge named Pointe Vechio because it was the only standing bridge after the bombings in world war II . We went to go see since tomorrow we are both leaving for Venice since Jordan is leaving on Thursday to go to Madrid to meet her mom. We went to the bridge and it was a beautiful view. It looked like a mini town on the bridge it was cute but everything was closed. After that we basically came back and chilled with the other girls and then went back to the room with Jordan to blog, figure out stuff for tomorrow and things like that. Tomorrow by this time I shall be in Venice =]