Grabbed train from florence to pisa this morning with one goal....get the cheesy photo everyone does. Well you can see we accomplished this :) here we are holding up the leaningtower.
We only stopped in pisa to see the tower, it was great as they let us check our luggae with an attendent as we explored the city. It actualy is a cute little town. We had fun just walking around.After capturing the photos we grabbed a light lunch (no really it was) at a cafe. It was sunny out and we sat for a long while and people watched. Oh i also bought new knock off sunglasses as my others from NYC broke...this hapens whe one sits on her glasses 2 different times!We then grabbed the 4:00 train to La Spezia. We practiced our italian numbers at each stop as we had ten before our stop. It was fun to see al the different towns and the amazing mountan scape and castles up in the hills. We had an adventure getting to our hotel and a hike (with luggage) up a steep set of stairs to get to our hotel. We checked into the lovely My Hotel, a modern hotel in Italy. It has a towel warmer in the bathroom...cool! We went back down the steep steps to find dinner...and found a quaint little place and ordered penne and salad, and because it was so cheap....swordfish too! I decided when in a fishing town...we should try it. It was good, see photo, but the presentation freaked me out a bit. The light part was good...the dark part...ick icky fishy yuck.
Then headed home, things are closed up here at 9pm...I mean everything. So back up the steep steps...photo to come when it is light out. Tomorrow is doomsday... I turn 40... luckily I have, and have had, amazing female role models on how to live large and that age is just a number...one I have been practicing in Italian :)So I guess all I have left to say is, BRING IT.
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