Day 7
Today Megan, Corey, Lindsay, Sarah and I woke up early and caught the 8:30 train to Florence! Since I booked my ticket separately from the other girls, my seat was in a different carriage. When I got to my seat, some lady was already sitting there, next to her husband and after a few confusing minutes I finally got what she was trying to tell me (in Italian) and switched seats. I loved the ride there; the countryside was beautiful- lots of hills and mountains and everything was green! Once we got to Firenze (that's Italian for Florence) we bought some maps and decided to head towards the big cathedral (Duamo) then find some tower that we heard about. We ended up climbing the dome of Duamo and the view was definitely worth the 463 stairs to see it!
Megan, Sarah, Lindsay, me, Corey
Florence
"Pondering Florence"
After that slightly sweaty and cramped little walk, we got some lunch then went and saw the famed statue of David. We were lucky enough to have practically no line and once we bought our tickets, turned a corner and there was David. It was a really impressive statue- I was not expecting it to be so huge! The odd thing we noticed was that his hands seemed a little bit big. We passed thru the rest of the museum then walked around looking for the replica statue that's outside in a square with a lot of other statues, as well as a famous bridge.The highlight of the day, and perhaps the entire trip to Italy was being HIT BY A MOPED. Yes, it's true. We were on our way to see David and I (unfortunately) wasn't paying very much attention while we were crossing the road and out of nowhere this lady on a moped ran me over! More like, I tripped over her front wheel, but it was still kind of scary! I was uninjured by the moped incident, thankfully.
the fake David
I spent our last day in Rome sneezing and mopping up my runny nose. We took the Metro to the Vatican and I waited at the exit of the Vatican museum while the rest of the group saw the Sistine chapel. (I plan on seeing it later when I go back to Rome in May.) When the group came out, we headed back to St. Pete's Square and 2 girls went in to see the Basilica while the rest of us basked in the sun. Interesting factoid- you are not allowed to lay down in St. Peter's Sq. Some police man in a police golf cart rolled by and told us not to lay down!
Once the girls got back, we Metro-ed back to the hotel and picked up our luggage then headed to the airport. Our flight was delayed AGAIN! so we waited in the airport, tired and cranky then finally got back to London at 12:30. We jumped on a bus back to the city which dropped up off at Liverpool St which meant we had to take 2 more buses back to the college. I didn't get into bed until 3:30 AM.
