Florence

After Bologna, we went to Florence. The hostel was very close to the train station, so that was really nice. Also, Florence was a great city because you could walk anywhere. We did not take a single bus or any form of transportation besides walking the whole time in Florence! Somehow we avoided all the lines everywhere in Florence, and I am still not quite sure how it happened. We walked by the Academia at about 10:15 in the morning just to see how the line was, and it didn't look to bad.. so Cara and I decided just to wait for 15 minutes and see how far we made it in the line. After 20 minutes we were already inside! It was kind of weird but they put David towards the beginning of the museum (you would think they would put it last, oh well.)
Obviously, this statue was great.
There were a few other famous ones there as well, the unifinished prisoner statues.. they were pretty cool.
We got lucky again somehow by walking to the Uffizi and going to make a reservation for the next day (our last day in Florence) and we got the last reservation available!
So the next day, we just got to walk right in the Uffizi, maybe a 5 or 10 minute wait in line, incredible! The Uffizi was alrite, the famous "birth of Venus" painting was there, it was okay... but she was at such an awkward angle, it looked like she should have fallen over.
The Duomo chapel wasn't that exciting.
However, the church Sante Croce was excellent. The tombs of Michelangelo and Galileo were in there.. that was pretty cool. Apparentely it took quite a while to get Galileo's body to be moved into the church. I guess that is what you get by telling the church that the Earth revolved around the Sun.
That was it for Florence, the hostel was pretty cool, the owner cooked us breakfast in the morning.
On the way to Rome, we stopped in Pisa to look at the tower, eat Pizza, and of course, take the required holding up the tower photo.