Day 9 - Shopping and some much needed relaxation!

5-22

Me and Linsey got up early, on accident, so we walked to the church before breakfast to fill up out bottles at the fountain there. When I was going to get dressed I got so annoyed because I only brought two t-shirts—bad choice for a girl who only ever wears t-shirts—and I wanted to wear one today. This would be no problem except I’d already worn my t’s the last 2 days! I ended up just sitting on the floor laying with my head on my hands in my suitcase. Then I changed into one of the dirty t-shirts. Then we came up for breakfast and ate with the group. We went on an urban hike up this hill to this place called the Piazza di Michelangelo and got to see a great view of Florence from there. I thought that all of our stairs were in preparation for the Duomo but I found even that was preparing me for today. It was so hot. It was actually probably less work today but it was so hot and we didn’t stop at all on the way which meant I thought it was harder.

After taking pictures up there we went down to another museum. We got to see more of Michelangelo’s stuff and this weird fountain with a woman with no nipples. We later found out that was because the water came out where her nipples should have been. Classy, right? There was a statue of Hermes that was pretty cool, though. He was standing on one foot on top of a gust of wind coming from a nymphs mouth (all you could see was the head) and he just looked like he was about to take off. I thought it was amazing.

We got the afternoon off and so first me and Linsey figured out our finances. How much we’d spent, what we’d spent it on, etc. We skipped lunch opting for some of the food we took from the last hotel instead. Then we went out and hit the markets. I managed to find gifts for most everyone on my list. I just have two more and I am under budget right now so I may be able to make a couple a little bit better. I am not sure how that will pan out. We don’t leave until late tomorrow so I am probably going to pack up tomorrow morning which means tonight I got to just sit on the terrace and sketch, read, and relax. It was a lot of fun. I was really hyper for some reason.  

So we went and sat down and got some pasta (which I really haven’t found a lot of pasta here that I love). Then we went for ice cream and found an H&M. I may or may not have gotten hit on randomly during this transition. I really don’t know if it did or not but one of the girls said this guy was hitting on me and I just know I was embarrassed. H&M was fun, though, it is like a department store kind of thing. So Alaina and I found all the ugly clothes and made fun of them. We also tried on hats and sunglasses. I was maybe a little crazy, which was odd because the gelato wasn’t until after H&M so it wasn’t sugar. WAIT! I had Fanta! Oh that sneaky, sneaky drink! I didn’t even think of the sugar in that. Anyway we had a ball in that store. Linsey and I actually tried on a long legged romper thing. They were gorgeous. Haha. Then we found an ATM for Alaina and went up to the terrace to sketch—I feel so fancy saying that we spent the evening “relaxing on the terrace”. I sketched some of the roofs that we can see from up here. I just really enjoy how the roofs overlap each other. I don’t feel like they are crowded, though, more just like they are cuddling with each other.

Note to self: Don’t ever drink Fanta again, it makes you super goofy.

Well, I think I am just going to figure out my finances for the rest of the trip and then read or go to bed or something. Who knows? Linsey and I did flirt with the idea of going out to find some Limoncello. It’s really yummy so it could definitely happen.