A leaning day of fun!

Today we all took a train out to the town of Pisa.  We had a fun little walking tour where we learned about some of the less popular sites in Pisa, including the University of Pisa which is where Galileo studied.  The last stop on our walk was the field of dreams which is where the famous leaning tower lives.  

Our first view of the tower didn’t appear that it was leaning too far, but as we made our way around the tower you could see the great lean.  Our Rick Steves guidebook told us a story about how different engineers have tried to fix the lean and many have actually made it worse.

  


After getting some classic tourist photos we made our way into the cathedral.  This cathedral is also called “Duomo,” but this dome wasn’t near as large as the one we climbed here in Florence.  Many of us chose to go to the baptistry in front of the cathedral which is the largest baptistry in Italy.  It also has some amazing acoustics.  We took a quick break to grab some lunch and got a group photo before heading back towards the train station.  We stopped at a popular gelato shop to celebrate a couple birthdays coming up (Shawna’s birthday is the 28th and David’s is the 26th!) We even made a leaning tower out of our cups :)



We then caught an early train back to Florence giving us a large part of the day to explore this awesome city one last night.  Most of us spent some quality time (and money :) ) in the open air markets and got lots of great gifts and purses! We met back at the hotel at 6:30 to touch base and then headed out for a great group dinner.  We went to a little restaurant that had amazing pasta and delicious wines!  

We then walked around to find a good gelato shop (Gelato twice a day is not a bad thing).  We have made it back to the hotel and are getting ready for our trip to Rome!  I can’t believe we will be home in less than a week, time sure flies when you’re having a blast!