Life is going fantastically! After I was done with class and computer stuff yesterday, I met up with Cheri and Kathy. I took them to the Piazza Michelangelo which was fantastic yesterday. The sun has been out for days and yesterday it was so incredible warm and clear. Thus... the tourists are out in full force :( But yesterday was beautiful, and it looks like clear days ahead! (Cosmic joke?? The instant I buy rain boots it ceases to rain??)
We wandered around the leather market, and I found a 10 € leather bound journal with the fleur d'lis symbol of Florence which I will go back to purchase today. Before I left for Italy, my sister (in law) Beth gave me a travel journal. I finished all the pages while I was in Germany, so I am seriously falling behind, and I need a new travel journal ASAP.
After we went through every corner of the leather market, we went and had dinner at a place Kathy ate at years ago. I got the veal scallopine in a truffle sauce. It was light and delicate for the first few bites, but then it got REALLY heavy. It wasn't as good as the place the night before, but the place the night before was hiding away and not so touristy. We did have a really good wine though. Kathy bought us gelato afterwards and we separated, with plans to meet this afternoon at 11 30 for lunch.
I really didn't want to wake up today. I was having really really weird dreams, but I can't remember how they went at all... no wait, I just did. They're too weird to post. ...Actually, I think that dream was from the night before. Last night's dream was still really weird. I can't remember it almost at all.
But I'm glad I did wake up, because they changed the lunch time to 11. I rushed there, only to find out they didn't open for lunch until 12. We wandered around and went into this store called De Herbore which is full of lotions and "smelly stuff" as they called it. Which totally reminded me that I have an Italian lotion that Kathy sent Cheri and I am almost out of and I need to buy soem more of it. But Cheri bought herself some smelly stuff and then she gave a lemon lotion to me! It was very unexpected, but I was very grateful. So we went and got a breakfast kind of deal at Chiaroscuro, which was pretty good. And then I had to say goodbye because today they're going south! It was so nice to spend time with Cheri and Kathy these last three days. I had a really good time. I was also really glad that I've spent enough time wandering around Florence so that I could take them places and navigate the back roads. Imagine how ashamed I would be if they came and I couldn't take them anywhere!
Today I had my first experience with the Italian post office (posteitaliane.) You take a numbered slip of paper and get in line. Now mind you, that numbered slip of paper means absolutely nothing. It does not determine in what order you are called on at all like it does in say... Amsterdam. The first time I got in the wrong line and an old Italian woman told me to go to the other line. Then I managed to get in the slowest line in the world. I was really nervous as I continued to get closer and closer, thinking things like... I don't know any words that relate to the post office other than "Ho uno paco." "He doesn't look very friendly." "What if he doesn't speak any English!" "What if there's a package charge and it's like 50€???" But I got up there, handed in my slip and my passport, said, "Ho uno paco." He went and got it, got me to sign the slip, and I left. Whew! I didn't have to pay anything, it wasn't difficult, I didn't have to answer any questions!
The package is from my good friend Elena Villa.
This is my good friend Elena....?? I tried to upload the photo... dang it, where is it?! Maybe I just uploaded it twice. Grrrrr!
ANYWAY it's from my good friend Elena Villa, who has, sadly, left me to wallow alone in the state of GA without her sunshine presence. She's taken it to Wisconsin, where they could probably use the sunshine a little bit more.
All I knew was that she said she was sending me chocolate and gum. And when I opened it... WOW! All kinds of candy! Four three-packs of Orbit spearmint gum! Swedish fish, red vines, a giant Hershey bar, sour heads! But best of all... A BUTTERFINGER!
I've gotten so many gifts and American goodies lately! My life is awesome!
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