Day 11 – Tuesday, December 29, 2009 – Florence

March 13, 2010

We slept in on this morning. The family needed it. I was up for an 8:00 am call for work. I got breakfast ready for the family before they shut everything down. We were going to drive to Sienna on this day, but instead, we decided just to hang out in Florence and have a low-key day. The first thing we did was to walk to the Medici Chapel. After this, we walked past several other historic sites in Florence, including the Piazza Santa Maria Novella, the Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore, and the Palazzo Vecchio. We stopped for lunch at a pizza place that was pretty neat. We sat right by the window into the kitchen where we could watch the pizza man make his pizzas.

After lunch, I bought some dress shoes and Katie bought some rain boots. We then walked down to the Ponte Vecchio bridge. This is a famous bridge in Florence. I found a shop where I could by some Tuscany wine and some olive oil. I almost bought a jar of white truffles from Pisa, but I decided not to. We headed home early, and then we went to McDonalds for dinner. That was tasty, and much needed. After “dinner”, we curled up on the bed and watched a black-and-white movie in Italian. I put the kids to bed and then did some Summit work until about midnight. We headed to bed, and prepared for the longer drive to Geneva.