Today we had Italian class and they took us to the food market! that was interesting.... they have some various animals for sale in their meat and seafood department(to say the least). But it was really kool to see their foods and how they differed from ours. Then we went to Pitti Palace. It was really kool. It was the home of the Medici family. They still had the set up like it was a home with all the furniture and paintings. That was really neat! but of course we couldnt take pictures!dagger! Then we went have lunch at lunch at a little sandwich shop! Then I had wine class and I had a quiz so I had to go. After our quiz we went over some notes and our teacher brought us some wines to taste. This was the sparkling red that she made us try with an italian dark chocolate! it was amazing! best I have ever tasted! now that Grappa that we had to taste was a little more potent! Its the strongest wine and it pretty much tastes like everclear!
After class I went meet Meeg n them and we headed to the Duomo to climb to the top! The stairwell was so tiny! No way two people could fit in it. It was one really long whindy staircase all the way up 463 steps.
This was the little breaking point. They had a few of the statues of the church.
Poo-yie sha!
Then you enter the church and you are in the inside of the dome of the church. It was really kool you could overlook the church down below and you could look up and see the ceiling like 30 ft away from you! It was beautiful!
The writings on the wall as you go up the steps!
Yeh.... this was the last set of steps! they were so steep you had to put your hands on the top steps to walk up it!
Once you got to the top it was all worth it! So Amazing! You had a full 360 view of the entire city of Florence. and it was from the center of the city!
You could see the mountains and hills on the outskirts of the town and churches and monuments throughout the city!
This was the view from the binoculars! The silver things at the bottom are the binoculars!
The Santa Croce Church and the Michelangelo Piazzale up on the hill!
Taking our postcard pics!
Prety kool!
We stayed up there for a while! we did the picture thing then we just sat and overlooked the city! Pretty amazing!
The view looking down to the front of the Duomo!
Then we headed down the stairwell!!! Its just as interesting going down!
These are some of the tools they used to build the dome. Pretty kool that they could build something like this with these little wooden tools!
Then we went home and I cooked dinner for everyone and trisha and johanna came over! made my little italian eggplant medalione! learned it in cooking class!!! We ate dinner and talked and ended up getting into conversation and forgetting we had some where to go!haha woops!
Then we went to show Meagan and Lorali our little singer in the Uffitzi Square. We just hung out on the steps and listened to him play!
Cant really see him but you can kind of see!
Not ready for them to leave tomorrow! Still have so much i want to show them! You cat do Florence in three days!
We stayed here and talked all night then headed back so they could get some sleep to leave early in the morning!
Today we had Italian class and they took us to the food market! that was interesting.... they have some various animals for sale in their meat and seafood department(to say the least). But it was really kool to see their foods and how they differed from ours. Then we went to Pitti Palace. It was really kool. It was the home of the Medici family. They still had the set up like it was a home with all the furniture and paintings. That was really neat! but of course we couldnt take pictures!dagger! Then we went have lunch at lunch at a little sandwich shop! Then I had wine class and I had a quiz so I had to go. After our quiz we went over some notes and our teacher brought us some wines to taste. This was the sparkling red that she made us try with an italian dark chocolate! it was amazing! best I have ever tasted! now that Grappa that we had to taste was a little more potent! Its the strongest wine and it pretty much tastes like everclear! 
After class I went meet Meeg n them and we headed to the Duomo to climb to the top! The stairwell was so tiny! No way two people could fit in it. It was one really long whindy staircase all the way up 463 steps.
This was the little breaking point. They had a few of the statues of the church.
Poo-yie sha!
Then you enter the church and you are in the inside of the dome of the church. It was really kool you could overlook the church down below and you could look up and see the ceiling like 30 ft away from you! It was beautiful!
The writings on the wall as you go up the steps! 
Yeh.... this was the last set of steps! they were so steep you had to put your hands on the top steps to walk up it! 
Once you got to the top it was all worth it! So Amazing! You had a full 360 view of the entire city of Florence. and it was from the center of the city!
This was the view from the binoculars! The silver things at the bottom are the binoculars!
The Santa Croce Church and the Michelangelo Piazzale up on the hill!
Taking our postcard pics!
Prety kool!
We stayed up there for a while! we did the picture thing then we just sat and overlooked the city! Pretty amazing!
The view looking down to the front of the Duomo!
Then we headed down the stairwell!!! Its just as interesting going down!
These are some of the tools they used to build the dome. Pretty kool that they could build something like this with these little wooden tools!
Then we went home and I cooked dinner for everyone and trisha and johanna came over! made my little italian eggplant medalione! learned it in cooking class!!! We ate dinner and talked and ended up getting into conversation and forgetting we had some where to go!haha woops!
Then we went to show Meagan and Lorali our little singer in the Uffitzi Square. We just hung out on the steps and listened to him play!
Cant really see him but you can kind of see!
Not ready for them to leave tomorrow! Still have so much i want to show them! You cat do Florence in three days!
We stayed here and talked all night then headed back so they could get some sleep to leave early in the morning!
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