Elli has a chance to stop for 3 seconds and snap a photo!
dirty rat pigeons. But nice to photograph.
The statue reminds me of the man who has recently died in Florence because he was shat on by a pigeon and contracted an avian virus, and now his wife is trying to get an ordinance to get rid of the many many pigeons all around the city.
This is Allie, Ellie and ME above before 'wine night' described below? or above?
SACI – day 2; after politics tour- we went out for pizza and a night of wine drinking!
We are in the saci gardens here in the photo.
Back to Day four: After the market and the 99cent Euro store- where we got a couple of needed items for the apartment- aka: trashcan for bathroom and sponges, and dishsoap etc. I went back to the apartment and chilled for a while, just talking to my roommates- Khris was out and so it was just Jamie and Nikki and I, which was truly awesome- my type of galls.
When Khris returned we decided that it might be fun to head out and see the Duomo on the day of the Virgin’s Mary’s birth, however we were too late for the free admission to the towers and to the gallery’s which are never opened any other day that we are in italy. Oops. So we decided to just walk into where everyone was going- we ended up walking into the Saturday mass for the Virgin Mary’s birth. So, we stayed for most of the mass, and a nice Italian family shared their programs with us so we could follow along- even though who I was sitting with could not stop flipping the pages around so I could read the Italian. Ugh. Oh well, people are people.
When we returned to the apartment we decided to go to dinner with us and JoAnn and her roommate as well… Nikki had a place picked out she wanted to go down by the Palazzo de Republica and we had fun down there with preseco and pasta and girls. Then I was going to meet some youngins down by the river so we walked there and saw the floating lantern boats there, and then we wanted a drink, but supposedly these other people were going as well- but when we arrived at their apartment- they weren’t ready. Owen, me, Veronica, Elli and Allie all sat there with these other kids we didn’t know real well, just to find out that we were getting tired sitting there. Well- Elli and her roommates plus Owen wanted to hang up in the north- so they decided to go home, and since I knew no one and didn’t feel like hanging with freshman in college I returned to my apt, but of course I tried some gelato with the group on the walk across the city- I had mint chip again. YUM. The caramel one was super sweet and awesome as well.
SO- here’s my point in describing every moment of Saturday. A few years makes such a huge difference in how people act. The older group, ranging from 21/22 – 49 enjoyed every minute of sitting out in a palazzo and spending money on enjoying friends. We bought fresh food for the following days so that we could afford to go out and sit at a café for a couple of hours on the weekend. And then the silly people who are younger just like to hang around and never decide on the same thing- we’ll see what we are up to- whether we are too hungover from the night before, or if we get our hands on liquor etc. and have a vision of getting SMASHED, versus getting slowly buzzed and happy with friends outside enjoying company more than anything. Funny how the young version of Americans is what the city of Florence probably thinks of most of us Americans since there are more students than I’ve ever even seen in Houston ever. Just something to think about.
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