Firenze, Florence, Tuscany

We got into Florence Thursday night and went to bed. We were super tired. Got up a little late the next day and did our laundry... finally! It was time we had just run out of everything and we spent the morning washing clothes, blogging and eating piadinas at a place owned by an italian lady who is married to a Dominican! It was great, amazing food, super busy with the college kids and it was great getting to use some spanish! We went around and saw the Duomo, walked up what seemed to be 1,000 steps of spiral staircases and enjoyed the views. The dome is a panting of dante's inferno (according to some american students we walked up with) It was pretty cool. We met some nice girls at the top and we met up with their group later to get some gelato at a famous place that is gelato torino style, (its called GROM). After that it was my turn to get some sweet designer shades. Rook's amazing italian and charm helped out once again in getting us a deal. I found a sick pair of Versace shades that were half off and and Rook got me an extras 10 euros off for beng nice and I got an extra glasses case (a hard one and a soft one). Essentially I got a pair of 300 dollar glasses for 90 euros or 120 ish dollars depending on the exchange rate for that day! SWEET! Rook also talked the museum people into letting us see the statue of David after hours, just us and for free! We didnt et the close but it was way cool and a lot bigger than I thought.

Then we went to il gato e la volpe to get some food. It was packed and we had to wait till about 10 to eat. It was well worth it. We got a focaccia di tre colori... it was focaccia with tomatoes, buffalo mozarella, and arrugula lettuce.... AMAZING! So fresh and it ws just de....wait for it...lish! then We got some special dishes that werent on the menu because Rook sweet talked the host. So he got the dish he has wanted to eat the whole time we have been here. Tagliatelli pasta with a wild boar meat sauce, it was great. I got a chicken and broccoli penne pasta. The host also got us some dates, we told him he could have two hot girls sit with us if he wanted and he got us two nice looking girls, we got to eat their leftovers so it was worth it! The had pesto gnocchi and another gnocchi that wasnt as good. Rook and I love that place, at least I do (Rook is havng a hard time tasting things, he is sick).

The next day we went around florence again went to piazzale michelangelo and sw a copy of the statue of david, took some pics, went through the Boboli gardens, while humming the godfather theme music the whole time. We felt we had arrived in the real Italy. For some reason the Tuscan area of italy is what you think of when you think of italy... its beautiful! After the gardens and a museum, we went and got on a train to Pisa to go see the leaning tower. It was way cool and we met 5 count them 5 nice girls that invited us out for drinks. We became friends (facebook friends) and we got some VIRGIN strawberry daquiris with them. It was fun, Rook talked up a storm and charmed the ladies. Luckily the one I thought was cutest was the only one that knew spanish, so I got to talk to her a little which was nice... but my spanish was a little too dominican for her at times and I had to enunciate a lot and not use as much slang/cutting words in half like dominicans do. We went back to Florence that night and went back to the same restaurant and got the same pasta Rook got the time before. We decided to split a Florentine steak it was 1.2 kilos or 2.6455471462199997 pounds! It was cooked (kinda we had to send it back the thing was still mooing) florentine style, it was pretty good. After eating that and some amazing roasted potatoes, we headed back home. That concludes florence for us, we loved it and went to church there the next day. Sorry I can't upload pictures on the pc. TTYL.

This is Florence:

Boboli Gardens:

This is a typical Tuscan Village: