We are blessed with a beautiful view of Fabulous Florence (and Awesome Andrea!). Let's go . . .

Shopping! (And no, not at the Disney store!)

The leather here is amazing. Many bought purses and I bought a coat. What's on your list?

Next stop the museum. How did Italians get their hair so blonde? They died it, of course . . . with urine! Next up. . .

Michelangelo's "David." Can you believe he is 17 feet tall? And look what he is holding in his hand . . .

He is wearing just his sling, and holding a stone. The detail is incredible.

Moving on, we see the church where the great reformer Girolamo Savonarola preached against corruption of both the church and the people. He instituted the burning of objects that might cause sin in 1497. The fire was 60 feet high and infamously named the . . .

"Bonfire of the Vanities." Unfortunately for him, he was later hung, burned himself and his ashes thrown into the Arno river. (Pictured here).

We have now made it to "sexy square" where you will find many statues of men without their clothes. When the pope came to town they would be covered up.

In addition to statues, Florence produced three famous books, Machiavelli's "The Prince", Dante's "Inferno" and Collodi's "Pinochio!"(There is even a Pinochio church in Florence).

Now on to Pisa, where it's raining a bit. A a mother-daughter team took advantage of us being distracted with our umbrella's and one of us got pick pocketed! Fortunately all they got was $$$.

Welcome to the field of miracles. Each building is beautiful. Uh oh, the bell tower is leaning .. .

No worries! I got this!

Next we check out the separate building built just for Baptisms, that occurred twice a year, once at Christmas and once at Easter.

Here is the baptismal built in the 1100's. Before the 1500's Catholics used to be baptized by immersion as an adult. In separate ceremonies by gender, a person would descend naked into the water, and when they came out be given a white robe to put on, indicating their sins were forgiven.

Engineers have actually come up with a way to fix the leaning tower, but that would hurt the economy so they are leaving it be, just as we are. See you tomorrow!

Picturesque Florence, pick pockets, purses and Pisa! Our time in Tuscany is certainly not boring. Let's get started.

Fun under the Tuscan Sun

We are blessed with a beautiful view of Fabulous Florence (and Awesome Andrea!). Let's go . . .

Shopping! (And no, not at the Disney store!)

The leather here is amazing. Many bought purses and I bought a coat. What's on your list?

Next stop the museum. How did Italians get their hair so blonde? They died it, of course . . . with urine! Next up. . .

Michelangelo's "David." Can you believe he is 17 feet tall? And look what he is holding in his hand . . .

He is wearing just his sling, and holding a stone. The detail is incredible.

Moving on, we see the church where the great reformer Girolamo Savonarola preached against corruption of both the church and the people. He instituted the burning of objects that might cause sin in 1497. The fire was 60 feet high and infamously named the . . .

"Bonfire of the Vanities." Unfortunately for him, he was later hung, burned himself and his ashes thrown into the Arno river. (Pictured here).

We have now made it to "sexy square" where you will find many statues of men without their clothes. When the pope came to town they would be covered up.

In addition to statues, Florence produced three famous books, Machiavelli's "The Prince", Dante's "Inferno" and Collodi's "Pinochio!"(There is even a Pinochio church in Florence).

Now on to Pisa, where it's raining a bit. A a mother-daughter team took advantage of us being distracted with our umbrella's and one of us got pick pocketed! Fortunately all they got was $$$.

Welcome to the field of miracles. Each building is beautiful. Uh oh, the bell tower is leaning .. .

No worries! I got this!

Next we check out the separate building built just for Baptisms, that occurred twice a year, once at Christmas and once at Easter.

Here is the baptismal built in the 1100's. Before the 1500's Catholics used to be baptized by immersion as an adult. In separate ceremonies by gender, a person would descend naked into the water, and when they came out be given a white robe to put on, indicating their sins were forgiven.

Engineers have actually come up with a way to fix the leaning tower, but that would hurt the economy so they are leaving it be, just as we are. See you tomorrow!

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Fun under the Tuscan Sun

We are blessed with a beautiful view of Fabulous Florence (and Awesome Andrea!). Let's go . . .

Shopping! (And no, not at the Disney store!)

The leather here is amazing. Many bought purses and I bought a coat. What's on your list?

Next stop the museum. How did Italians get their hair so blonde? They died it, of course . . . with urine! Next up. . .

Michelangelo's "David." Can you believe he is 17 feet tall? And look what he is holding in his hand . . .

He is wearing just his sling, and holding a stone. The detail is incredible.

Moving on, we see the church where the great reformer Girolamo Savonarola preached against corruption of both the church and the people. He instituted the burning of objects that might cause sin in 1497. The fire was 60 feet high and infamously named the . . .

"Bonfire of the Vanities." Unfortunately for him, he was later hung, burned himself and his ashes thrown into the Arno river. (Pictured here).

We have now made it to "sexy square" where you will find many statues of men without their clothes. When the pope came to town they would be covered up.

In addition to statues, Florence produced three famous books, Machiavelli's "The Prince", Dante's "Inferno" and Collodi's "Pinochio!"(There is even a Pinochio church in Florence).

Now on to Pisa, where it's raining a bit. A a mother-daughter team took advantage of us being distracted with our umbrella's and one of us got pick pocketed! Fortunately all they got was $$$.

Welcome to the field of miracles. Each building is beautiful. Uh oh, the bell tower is leaning .. .

No worries! I got this!

Next we check out the separate building built just for Baptisms, that occurred twice a year, once at Christmas and once at Easter.

Here is the baptismal built in the 1100's. Before the 1500's Catholics used to be baptized by immersion as an adult. In separate ceremonies by gender, a person would descend naked into the water, and when they came out be given a white robe to put on, indicating their sins were forgiven.

Engineers have actually come up with a way to fix the leaning tower, but that would hurt the economy so they are leaving it be, just as we are. See you tomorrow!

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