Culture! We love culture!!

Hi everyone, it's Andrea posting for the first time. We're still in Florence and we all really love it. It's right up there with Paris in terms of stuff to do. So today we did the Uffizi gallery - they have all the major Renaissance works. We stood in line for 4 hours to get in but it's culture week so the admission was free to all museums! So I guess it was totally worth it. Plus the paintings were great too. That's 8.50 euro saved each - one meal on the road...or half a meal for Holly! The rest of today we walked around town, did some shopping and then walked each of the 463 stairs to the top of the Duomo (cathedral). I took tons of pictures, of course. It was a beautiful day, no rain today. The view from the top was spectacular! We're ready to rest our feet for awhile now - good thing tommorrow we are taking the morning train down to Rome. The gelato was good again the second day in a row. I'm sure there will be more to come.

Ciao!

P.S. For Liz's mom - get well soon. We have you guys in our thoughts and prayers.