Italy is awesome

Today has been a pretty awesome day. James got up reeeaalllyyy early and went up to the Franciscan church to hear their morning prayers, sketch and generally "hang with the brothers". They invited him to mass and to sit up in the front of the church with all the monks. He was pretty excited about this. I slept and then had an hour to myself before breakfast which was nice. Danced like a dork in my underwear Cameron Diaz style.

I have to give props to the old ladys of Florence and Fiesole. They are badass people. swinging around on the bus like its nothing, jumping on bikes in their skirts and heels riding through heavy traffic that includes crazy bus drivers. These girls don't slow down for age.

After breakfast we went down to Florence to do some shopping. As soon as we get into Florence a pigeon poops on James. luckly it was just his sweater so he could just take it off but it was a bummer. We stopped in at this awesome paper store and bought some things. The guy who runs the shop was really awesome and we spent a while chatting with him about paper and wood presses and marbling paper. It was nice. We then walked around Florence and visited a few churches. They were all so beautiful but even after a few hours they all start to run together. James bought a bunch of post cards so be prepared people. check your mail! we walked past the really rich side of shopping. Dolce and Gabbana, Chanel and some other mainly Italian brand names. James took a picture of me drooling over Chanel. I spent a lot of time thinking " I want that" I want those leather gloves with the fur, I want that sexy leather jacket, i want those 1,000 euro shoes, I want that dress. I want! ooh so hard to want. But as my mother would say "Its good to want."


Then we went to check out the David in the square, I'm pretty sure it wasn't the real one.

After 5 hours of wandering and sight seeing we headed home. We took the bus up to Fiesole to get groceries, ice cream and to mail post cards. Every time we go into this grocery store James comments on this pig leg. He seems to really want to buy it but isn't sure they would let us bring it into the US. Its pretty gross looking and still has hair on it. I think our dog would enjoy it though.

Now we are going to chill for the rest of the evening. relax and have some dinner. Life is good! Being married to James rocks. My life is pretty awesome these days.