API trip to Florence

So last Friday and Saturday I was on the API overnight to Florence. I must say, Florence is a beautiful city. It is a lot smaller than Rome and a lot quieter. I really loved it but I think a few days was the perfect amount of time. I got to see all of the major sights and I had a lot of time wander around. I also had the most amazing meal with a girl from API in Tuscania, Maria. We got mistaken for being Italian in the restaurant and we were very proud of ourselves for that.

So we left Rome at about 7 am and got there midday. It was drizzling and we went on a guided tour of the city. Then we gto a quick bite to eat and checked out the leather markets. The markets were a ton of fun, bags, belts, wallets, gloves, jackets, etc everywhere. I wound up buying (over the course of both days) 2 pairs of gloves (1 purple, and 1 blue), a leather bound book (I am going to use it to put my Italy pictures in at the end of the semester, and a super soft green scarf.

Later on Friday Maria Savannah and I wandered while the rest of the girls stayed in the market. We went on the old bridge which has stores ON it and window shopped. There were a ton of jewelery stores there, but none of us were willing to put down 500-2000 euro on something.

Saturday we went to see the David, and while it is very beautiful I must say I don't really get the hype. Then I wandered around the city on my own. I found a bunch of cute churches, one playing organ music! and some really beautiful buildings and piazzas. You can see all of my pictures here, but I will post a few in this post as well.

The Duomo looked like it was made out of candy, it was all white and green and pink. So beautiful, and very intricate.

 

 

Dante's House!

When I was walking around the city I kept on running into this bride and groom taking their wedding photos. It was so cute, they seemed to happy.