Today was packed full of amazing coolness!! Despite our living situation, Florence is beautiful! This morning we went with our tour guide Tanya to Accademia and Uffizi. In the Accademia lies the famous statue of The David. Its huge! I had no idea how big it was, its amazing to think that Michelangelo sculpted it when he was in his twenties! Very impressive! The Uffizi Gallery was built by the Medici family in 1560 as offices but parts of it was turned into a gallery so the Medici's could show off some of their vast art collection with paintings like The Birth of Venus. It was pretty sweet to see these in real live. After our tour Darrin had us sketch some buildings and bridges in Florence. It was really nice just to sit and get lost in your drawings, and soak it all in. When we were done sketching we climbed up this massive hill with a ton of steps and walked to this church that I can't remember the name of to hear the monks sing. It was so worth the climb! It was very cool to hear them sing in latin, while we were at the church, outside there is incredible breath taking views of Florence as you can see in my pictures. We spent a little while up on the hill and then headed back down to find a place to eat. We found this amazing little restraunt that had the most amazing italian food, not to mention live kareoke! It was very entertaining and it was a great way to end the day. Oh yeah, my poor roommate Jenna is way sick, I hope she'll be ok. We're going to go do laundry now, should be interesting! Oh! One more thing, how could I forget!? We also went in the Baptistry today too! It was very cool! Everything was guilded in gold...very cool.
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