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 ...

This morning, UF in Rome set off for FLORENCE! We took about an hour and a half long train ride, found our beautiful hotel, Hotel Torre Guelfa, just a few blocks away from Palazzo Vecchio, then set out for a walking tour of the city! We saw the first house of the Medici family, the home of Dante Alighieri, the Duomo of the Basilica del Santa Maria di Fiori, and the statues of the Palazzo Vecchio which included Hercules, Neptune, and the fake David (the real one w...

Today for our Ancient Rome class we toured the Forum! Unlike yesterday we all successfully made it there on time, hooray! However it was raining again the whole time, but we didn't melt. We cooked ourselves lunch and dinner tonight when we got home. Then Jackie and smargs had an exam to study for so Carla and I went exploring Rome, which was interesting. After being aggressively approached by scary Italian men and street vendors speaking in broken English we stu...

This is a picture of us on the Ponte di Rialto, basically translated to "Royal Bridge" on the Grand Canal of Venice. It is central in the city and there are lots of shops, restaurants, and, of course, gondolas in the area. We were surprised to find locks on parts of this bridge, we are still going to go to the love lock bridge in Paris though!! On day two in Venice we visited the senate/courts/prison of Venice in the Piazzo San Marco. Can you believe the pris...

Today was our first full day in Venice!! We had our walking tour this morning, however, we didnt realize we'd have a 30 minute walk to get to Saint Mark's Square, or Piazzo San Marco, the man at the front desk at our beautiful hotel didnt think it was possible for us to make it on time. He clearly has never met sorority girls who run up and down stairs in heels as a hobby! We ran through the streets of Venice using street signs to find our way, managed to buy...