Thursday (?) Sept 23rd. Its 4:30ish now.
Florence is pretty neat. I think assuming you know something about art it is really pretty cool but when you have no clue what you are looking at etc it can get a bit boring. Yes, I'll admit it I am not an art museum person. I'll go, and I'll look and I enjoy it but how many times can you see the same thing painted.
Matt and I got going fairly early. We wanted to accomplish two things right away. The first was go stand in line to MAKE a reservation for the Uffizi Gallery. If you remember right I was supposed to do that for the Accademia too. The second thing was to get in line and climb up the dome of the main cathedral here. So off we went first to Uffizi. We found the line. Waited 30 minutes to go in and make our reservations and then we headed off to the dome. Well, turns out there isn't a line to climb it. Why would there be?! There isn't a lift to help you up part of the way. So we went straight in and up and up we went. It was pretty brutal too since we are both still really worn out! But we made it and it was great! What a view! We took our pictures and then headed back down again. This dome climb was a little different than St Peters because you go straight up the dome. There isn't a zigzag to get there its just up you go!
We went inside the cathedral from the bottom too so we could see it. Its really not much to look at inside but it is just a huge place! Really tall!
We walked around from there and went to the entrances to a few museums etc and decided it was a waste to pay for more art we didn't know about so we chose to walk over the bridge and up the hill on the other side to get that famous view of the city of Florence. Its amazing you don't really have to go that far to get it. It was really sunny today so it seems a bit bright Matt is thinking about going up there at sunset time but I may not make it :)
We were getting tired and hungry and fed up with the waves of tourists here so we found food and pigged out. Both of us had pasta today. So yummy!
We sat adn people watched for a while and then went to the Uffizi Gallery to see what all the fuss was about. Hmmm anyone know what all the fuss was about? Ha! Just kidding. The art in there is from people you've heard about. Pictures you've seen etc. It was great! We saw the Birth of Venus by Botticcelli. And thats about all i could name but it was cool. From there we popped into the Science museum where Galileo has his stuff at and they were working on the rooms full of his stuff so we were really disappointed in that but the other stuff was really awesome. what a thing to be around when people were just coming up with stuff that we use every day! How neat!
So, now we are at the hostel and napping etc trying to take a break. Its really hot here today! Sunny and busy!
We'll go out later when the sun goes down again.
I'm uploading photos right now so check yesterdays blog for some pics.
The photos are: matt in front of the replica David in Piazza della Signoria, me on the stairs up to the dome. the view from the dome and a view of teh crowds of people down the street.
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