So many great days on this trip! It feels like I've been gone a month. I'm looking forward to returning home though I will be very sad to leave Italy.
Yesterday we visited the David at the Academy Gallery. There are other works of art there but no one seems to care about them. What an amazing sculpture. We also enjoyed Michelangelo's Unfinished Prisoners. He used to say that the people were in the marble. He was just cutting away the excess. The Prisoners seem a testament to this.
After lunch we went to the Uffizi Gallery. I think I saw half of the paintings we studied in the first month of my art history class here. Nearly one in every room. It was wonderful to see them in person. I learned some other things at the Uffizi. Apparently Sara and I both had a crush on Abel from Genesis when we were children. I also learned that Samson is Sara's type of guy. She thinks I am most suited for someone like Luke. Hilarious. It's amazing the dumb things you say when you're surrounded by masterpieces. It's much like the time Laura, Alec and I spent several minutes admiring a plain metal chair at the Orsay Museum. Sometimes you have to break up the brilliance with some silly moments.
Last night we ate dinner at a wine bar/restaurant recommended by the great Rick Steves. It was the best meal we've had thus far. I ordered spinach and ricotta ravioli in a truffle sauce. Sara ordered gnocchi. Both were fantastic. We're going back there tomorrow for a cooking class. We are very excited!
Today we visited Siena. It is a wonderful, well preserved medieval town in Tuscany. We visited the Duomo and were very impressed. It may be our favorite church on the trip. (Don't tell St. Peters.) We ate on the town square, went shopping, then returned to the town square for gelato before departing for Florence. It was a really nice day.
Happy Valentine's Day to all!
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