In the city of Flowers

Here we are now in Florence! We finished in Rome with a bang! We got to go to the Borghese gallery! That was absolutely fascinating! That was probably the best collection of art and sculptures that we?'ve seen yet! Inculding the vatican museum, I can't wait to show you all those pictures! Speaking of pictures, I chose this internet cafe solely because it can download photo's, but really they can't. advertising technique? anyways, The next day we spent the entire day pretty much at vatican city. Probably the thing that I was looking forward to the most after the Louvre, and the verdict is... I wouldn't go back! It was such a great dissapointment! First we were standing in line for over 2 hours simply to get into the vatican. then after squeezing through the thousands of people to see the museum, we stood in another 2 hour line to get into the sistine chapel. Once there, we were herded through the chapel to the exit in back by guards. The worst part, is once we were in, there were so many people that we couldn't even gather the group together until we were out! The chapel was amazing, so it was too bad that there were so many people there. After that, we got to spend the rest of the day at st. Peter's basilica. That was amazing! The largest church in the world lived up to it's reputation... GRAND! I was also able to go underneath into the catacombs and look at previous popes tombs, including John Paul II's tomb! It was a very humble tomb compared to the rest.
Yesterday we spent pretty much the entire day travelling. First to Pisa, they had this huge tower that was leaning. I don't know if you've heard of it... and then we got here to florence where we have spend a long long long long long long time looking at art. Italy is truly the artists capital of the world!
Tomorrow we are off to Ravenna and Padova where I don't know what we will do, but I'm excited, and hoping that we make it safe through the gauntlets they call roads!
We love you all!
S&A