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Today was a day! In the morning we toured the beautiful Ufizzi Gallery! I was just awe struck by all of the amazing pices of art, and bummed I couldn't take any pictures. The coolest part was recognizing parts of the gallery after reading about the Ufizzi in Dan Brown's newest Robert Langdon, thriller/adventure book, Inferno. After that we walked to the Academia to see Michaelangelo's David. In person, it was giant! His head was disproportionately large compared to his body, as was his right hand, which our guide told us could have meant 3 different possible things: 1. the statues was started by a different artist and Michaelangelo had to fix their errors on that side, 2. it was a mitake, 3. it symbolized the hand of God, which is also why it held the stones for David's slingshot. My gut tells me it was probably the third one. Technically, taking pictures of this famous statue is illegal... but i just happened to snap one on my iphone, don't worry guys I wasn't arrested! I don't really get that rule, its not like flash harms the statue like it does the Declaration of Independence in the Archives. Regardless, it was so cool to see in person! After our tours we explored leather markets and shops, and got dinner at Hard Rock Florence and were served FREE WATER WITH ICE CUBES WHAT WHAT WHAT! We were so excited we couldve all peed. After dinner we decided to try a dessert we'd been seeing signs for all over florence... gelato with nutella on top of a warm waffle, I KNOW RIGHT! talk about yum!!! America seriously needs to get on that dish. Even after a long and busy day we took all of the girls on our trip to Club Space from the night before and had a blast again! Florence rulez
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Chris Marois So glad all of you DID NOT pee after your free water w/ice! And I agree that we need that dessert here. We have to try and re-create it!