We traveled to Florence on Wednesday, and it was a little chaotic when we arrived. Unfortunately, there was a problem with our original hotel, so we had to take another taxi to a new one. We finally got to the new hotel and were able to relax. Ariana and I had the privilege of sleeping with Aidan “Loud Snoring” Speridakos. The minute we stepped out of the hotel to explore, I entered leather heaven. There were so many tents set up. The market just went on and on. Hillary told me that I couldn’t leave Florence without buying leather, and I didn’t…
The following day (My BIRTHDAY!) we went on a tour of Florence. It really is a beautiful city. The only thing I did not like about Florence was all of the creepy men trying to sell you things on the streets. They were relentless. They kept trying to get us to come into their stores and try on clothes. My favorite part of the tour was seeing the statue of David. Our tour guide said that the next time we visited it might be closed off in glass. I guess carbon dioxide particles from all the visitors get into the holes in the statue and are slowly destroying it, so archeologists are trying to figure out how to best preserve it. Another highlight: Aidan fell asleep on Dad’s feet while we were standing right in front of the statue. (No he did not faint from its beauty, he really fell asleep!) He almost fell asleep again on one of the benches, but one of the women who worked there, spotted him and gave him the evil eye.
We walked around for the rest of the day and checked out the leather stores. My goal was to find a leather jacket my mom would get me for my birthday. On the way, we stopped for gelato…twice. The first time I had nocciola again, and then the second time we found a bakery dad had read about in his travel guide so we had to try it. I still think that nocciola in Rome was the best. My one request on my birthday was to visit the Ponte Vecchio or as I affectionately named the “Diamond Bridge” in Florence. So much jewelry in one place! I could have spent hours there! Then, we bought some pastries for my birthday celebration. We wanted to sit in the place and sing happy birthday, but they were going to charge us three euros! Instead, we went back to the hotel, watched Modern Family and sang happy birthday. It was low key and relaxing.
The following day we had completely free (Yay!). I finally bought my leather jacket with some negotiations. We did some more shopping. My favorite part of the day was going out for coffee with my dad. The whole trip to Italy we kept saying that we wanted to get coffee somewhere and relax. We finally did that at a place our tour guide recommended. Apparently, many famous writers used to have important meetings and discussions there. We chose the right place! The man was very kind to us, and let us sit without having to pay. We tried fresh tiramisu and a cannoli with some café. Gosh I am going to miss Europe!
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