Today's my last day in Florence, and it's been incredible! I made friends with these 3 Aussies right away when I got here, and the 4 of us have been doing everything together and having a blast. My first day here, I went to see Michelangelo's David, and it was unbelievable. You see pictures of him all the time and you hear how big he is, but its completely different to actually see him in person. (alas, no 10 gallon bucket for his pee, but whatcha gonna do . . . ) Then I walked around a couple of the piazzas and churches, and ended up climbing up to this piazza thats on top of a tall mountain overlooking the whole city, and watched the sunset from up there. On the way down, I met back up with the Aussies (we had separated when I went to see David), and they were going up so I climbed back up again and hung out up there with them for a while. Then, the next morning we woke up at 6:30 to go to the main art museum here because we'd heard that lines can get up to 4 hours long if you go in the afternoon. So we were the very first people in the whole line, and got to walk right in at 8 when it opened. The top floor had lots of dark paintings with Mary and baby Jesus, and none of us were all that impressed with it and they all started looking the same. The 2nd floor, however, had this absolutely awesome exhibit on Leonardo Da Vinci. It was all of his science stuff, like his journals and crazy inventions and ideas and everything. It turns out that he was an absolute genius, who pretty much invented and/or prooved everything scientific ever. ever ever. So we were all pretty much blown away by that. Then we came back to the hostel and passed out for a couple hours, and then the 4 of us climbed up a million steps to the top of the dome of the main basilica here, and just sat up there with the incredible view and a nice breeze for a while. Then we came back, got cheap bread and cheese and wine and made cheap dinner, and then headed out to a pub to watch the Argentina/germany game. We picked up a new zealand guy on the way, so it was 3 girls and 2 guys, and me and the girls just sat in the back and talked and giggled the whole time while the boys got real into it. Then we went back up to the piazza on the mountain where they set up a huge tv for the Italy game, and we watched that up there. It was packed and everyone was going nuts, and just basically a really good time. And this morning, the woman who runs my awesome little hostel Im in made breakfast for all of us, and it was chocolate cake and eggs and toast and cereal and yogurt, and it was delicious and free! So Im here for the rest of the day, and around 5 this evening hopping a train to rome!