Thursday, August 6, 2009

Pisa and Florence

My group and I spent our last weekend in Italy in Florence! We spent two nights there and stopped in Pisa on our way. I unfortunately caught some kind of flu that spread to my eyes so I had bad eyesight for most of the trip. My pictures look a little funny too because I couldn't see the screen haha. The first day we took a train to Pisa to have lunch and see the tower. Here are some pictures of us!


This almost worked haha


I thought these nuns were cute taking pictures of each other


After our stop we left for Florence. Our train broke down a few times on the way there, but we still go in at a decent time. We had dinner and went out at night. The next day we spent sightseeing, but I ended up shopping instead because I couldn't see. At night we tried a lot of the local food, including paninis, pasta, and gelato. We just spent the night meeting some of the other tourists and walking around the city. Here's a few pictures:


It was a windy haha

View of Florence from the top of Michelangelo's plaza

The group sitting by the river

Tonight is my last night in Italy :( I'm actually packing right now to leave for Dublin tomorrow and then Chicago and back home on Saturday. I'll see you soon!