Anywhere and Everywhere.

Time here is a blur. One minute it's flying by, the next minute we're moving at snail speed. My concept of what day it is has completely disappeared.

Since I last updated we have been to Florence again, Perugia, Fioano, and Siena. That's a lot of traveling in the one week since I last wrote, let me tell you.

Florence was fun again. We got a tour of the Duomo, which was pretty amazing. We didn't have time to go up in the dome yet, but there's a lot of people planning to when we go back in two days (Friday). I haven't quite decided what I will do yet. The day was rainy and cold, so we mostly spent the day shopping and eating. This was my lunch and a picture of the Duomo from our first trip:

Saturday only five of us, Kelly, Collin, Jeff, Amanda, and I went to Perugia. It was small group, which was perfect for exploring. Perugia is absolutely beautiful in certain spots too. At first we thought it was kind of dirty and it didn't look very Italian, but after walking up the incredibly long and giant hill, we found the good stuff!

Pretty amazing, I think. But as you can see, it was rainy this day too. However, the rain didn't really bother us. We were having too much fun just exploring. Lunch was an interesting experience because I made two mistakes. One: I order a peperone pizza... which apparently that's not pepperoni... it's PEPPERS. And I am not a pepper fan! I won't make that mistake again! And two: We didn't know what are waitress was asking so we accidentally order a round of espresso for everyone. It was extremely strong, but I drank it anyway! We laughed about it all day, though.

The next day we to went Fioano for Carnivale! Which is a big celebration that happens every year and they do a parade and there's some carnival food and it was just a very fun day. We even had cotton candy! Oh, and there was confetti and silly string everywhere and no one was immune to it! There were small Italian children who would just run up to you, throw a fist full of confetti at you and run away. There were people who probably grandparents also doing the exact same thing. Everyone was having fun.

Then today, Wednesday, we went to Siena. Unfortunately, I haven't put pictures of Siena on my computer yet, but we climbed to the top of the unfinished part of the Duomo there and it was one of the best views I have ever seen. Soon, hopefully, I'll put some up. Posting pictures is tricky because we don't have a lot of internet bandwidth to use here.

That's all for now! We're going back to Florence on Friday and then we go to Rome on Tuesday for four days! Should be great!