Home Again

Florence - I mean why not.  I had to show Florence to someone new so it was like I was exploring it all over again through the eyes of someone new!  We first got to Florence late at night, we were tired from all the travel and hauling luggage up hills(that was me) so we collapsed in our apartment and didn't move.  Liz had the time to upload all here pictures, and I had time to look back at all the emails I had missed over the weekend.  I am giving in to any preconceived notions about myself- I am addicted to the internet.  Anyway, Monday I had to be at work, and I worked through Wednesday then Liz and I were going to Scotland with her friend Anna! Monday night after work we walked around the city and looked in all the store windows, Liz decided that she wanted everything as a souvenir, so we had to narrow it down a bit.  What was nice was we got amazing leather jackets together, she got shoes and so on.  It was more nice to just walk around with her and talk.  I missed that so much, we used to be together all the time before I went to college and she went to high school.  It was a great catch up.


For lunch we met up and got to go to one of the best Tuscan restaurants in all of Florence and have an authentic Tuscan meal and let me tell you, I almost had to get rolled out.  They just kept bringing dish after dish, starting with fresh bread and olive oil, a light bean cucumber salad, ribolita (a Tuscan Vegetable and bread soup) several different pasta dishes and then meat and potatoes.  By meat, I mean they brought out three platters (put your arms in a circle in front of you and that is the rough size of one platter) that had a pile of different meats on it - for seven people.  Then they brought out platters of deserts, prosecco (an Italian wine similar to what champagne is) and then coffee to top it all off.  I couldn't move, I was literally in food coma and it was fantastic, except that I had to go back and work for a couple more hours.  I just wanted to curl up into a a warm ball of goodness and nappppp.  But alas, my days of napping on random weekdays went the way of college.

We went to like seven Gelato places by Wednesday and got coffee everyday.  With work the first half of the day and then hanging with Liz every night those three days flew by.  And it was time to leave for Scotland!