Europe Day 15: Saint Francis and Chinese Food

Assisi is a truly beautiful place.  Despite the fact that our bus driver was 1 1/5 hours late (that's an hour and twenty minutes that I could have been sleeping), we did not eat lunch until 4, and it was absolutely almost the entire time; I am so glad we went! It is a very old town with many of the buildings still standing from a very long time ago.  This includes a temple built by the Romans in honor of Minerva, thousands of years ago.  THOUSANDS of years ago!  Not to mention the country side was stunning.  Lovely old houses, lots of rich green grass, and ancient buildings built of stone.  I would have been very content to stay much longer than four hours!

I really was not feeling well when we left, so I curled up in my charter bus seat.  With Kayla's jacket as a pillow, managed to sleep for about an hour and a half. I felt much better afterwards.  I'm still sick, but at least managed to perk up for the first few hours of Rome.

Everyone is pretty tired of pizza and spaghetti, so we went to a chinese restaurant for dinner.  Even thought it was a little salty, they had chicken and rice and vegetables, where most of what we ate in Florence was ham, spaghetti and bread.  Considering it is only a few blocks from our hotel, I'm going to try and be a pretty regular customer for the duration of our stay.