Besser zu gehen als zu stehen...

Well, after about 14 hours of sleep last night, I think I’m ready now to continue my blog.

Wednesday we journeyed 2.5 hours by train to Assisi where St. Frances lived. We saw another cathedral, but this one was a double-decker. Then we walked up the huge hill and explored a castle on the top of the hill. It was so cool! I would love to just spend hours walking and climbing around that castle with no restrictions. To end the day, we caught a bus and a train, and were back in Florence. I must admit, I was still grumpy at the beginning of this day, but the castle really cheered me up.



On Thursday, Alex and I went to the Uffizi. We only spent about an hour in line and then about 2 hours inside. I saw The Birth of Venus by Botticelli and some other cool ones. I really liked the Botticelli stuff. We were finished early, and so we walked around for a while and I had an interesting encounter with a street vendor. Alex asked how much a sweatshirt was and the guy said €20. Alex put the sweatshirt back and the guy said, “Wait! Wait! You can have it for €15!” Alex kept leaving and I asked about a different sweatshirt and he said I could have it for €15 also. He went to get the color I wanted and a second guy started saying something to me in Italian. He then asked in Italian if I understood Italian, and I said no. He had me try on a sweatshirt and I said it fit fine, but he said it would shrink and the other guy had gotten a bigger size. I tried on that one and said it felt smaller, and so he had the other guy get a different size. As I was taking off the sweatshirt, my other shirt was coming up and the guy offered to hold it down. Then as I was waiting for the other guy to come back, it was sprinkling and the guy touched my arm and told me to stand under his tent thing. So I stood there, and tried the other shirt on when the other guy came back. As I was taking that sweatshirt off, my other shirt started to come up. The guy made a noise, and ran over to me to hold down my shirt. It was cute… and so was he. We met up with the rest for dinner and then went back to the hostel.

We woke up at 5 a.m. on Friday in order to get to Pisa and have enough time to see the leaning tower. The train ride was sleepy. And then we went home to Germany. It was a nice week.



Today was boring and sleepy. I slept until 12:45 and then napped in the afternoon while ‘watching’ German TV. I also bought €10 worth of groceries, which is a lot. I bought milk, 2 packages of bread roles, eggs, cheese, butter, jam, pasta sauce, Pringles, mushrooms, peppers, zucchini, and müsli.

Oh, wow…