rain rain rain

Rain. Thats what my last post ended with and thats what this one begins with. Essentiall it rained for the last few weeks with a few days of sunshine. I was determined to go to Florence and Siena and wanted to do a whole trip including Volterra and Lucca too but by the time we booked the hostels, Siena was booked and Volterra was really out of the way if we werent going to Siena. So the new plan became Florence, Pisa, and Lucca. I went with Sam and Lauren then we met Kristi in Lucca. Laurens friend studying in Florence was our guide and taught us all about the duomo and the medicis and the ponte vecchio. We also saw David in the Accademia but I wasnt very impressed by the rest of the stuff there. We walked around with her the first day then on the second day, Lauren and I accomplished A LOT. We climbed Brunelleschi's big dome, ate bagels for the first time since January (seriously, Florence is the only place in Italy you can find bagels), went shopping at the huge outdoor market, then went to Pisa and took pictres with the leaning tower, then went to Lucca and met up with Kristi and Sam. It was quite the adventure. We walked around the city and had a delicious dinner. It was a lot like Ferrara but with more tourists and less bikes.
The next day we woke up to rain again. it had been overcast the whole weekend but the rain came down big-time that day. Lauren and I were kind of tired mentally and sick of the rain so we just climbed the tower and left. And that was Florence; Pisa, and Lucca.