Europe Day 12: Art and Laundry

I spent two and a half hours in a museum today, and I only saw half of it.

Uffizi is it's name; it is a very large museum in Florence, and apparently particularly important.  I wont lie; I had never heard of it until we arrived here.  But it was amazing!  Hundreds of pictures adorned the walls.  Most of them were either of very rich Italians, or the Virgin Mary.  A precious few were of the Greek and Roman Gods and Goddesses.  They were my absolute favorite.  Though it was a little strange to see Virgin Mary holding baby Jesus, then turn around and see The Birth of Venus in all her glory.

I found myself in the museum completely seperated from the rest of my class.  I hadn't been through the entire building, but it was lunch time, and I had class in an hour, so I needed to get out of there.  It was a maze to find the exit, and half a mile more the bathroom, but I managed to find a delicious pizza for lunch before class.

Kayla and I went on a laundry excursion this afternoon.  We packed all the clothes we brought into a backpack and garbage bag, wearing the left over odds and ends four blocks to the laundry mat.  We watched Lost while the laundry was in the washer, and put it in the dryer most of the way through the episode.  That is where we made our mistake; apparently all of the laundry is supposed to go into a pressure cooker looking machine, where it sits for three minutes with the red light on and something happens, but I'm not sure what.  After that it can go into the dryer.  We did not know this until afterwards, when the nice Italian laundry mat owner explained why our clothes were so wet.  So, we packed it all back into the garbage bag and back pack, carried it the four blocks back to our hotel, and hung it all on the balcony in Kayla's room. 

We went out for a nice dinner; where I had a delicious calzone, before some gelato.  I have had gelato every day since I have been in Italy, and I am not ashamed of it.  I figure I'll either gain a whole bunch of weight from eating so much good stuff, or loose a few pounds after walking around everywhere. Or, it wouldn't be to bad to simply remain where I am, with the food and the walking to balance each other out.  But, I will not fret.  I played "Wii Fit" right before I left, and I'll do it again when I return so I can see what exactly happened; mostly because I am curious.

That's all for today; I must scurry off to bed.  Tomorrow we go to Academia and I wish to be well rested.  Last night was the first night I slept through to morning; I am hoping for a repeat performance this evening.