Yesterday I was in Pisa. Pisa strikes me as the sorta town in rural America thats claim to fame is the worlds largest Frying Pan. The phrase “Stop in Pisa and see the World’s most leaningest tower in all the world” should be printed on a billboard outside of this town. All fooling around aside the Tower was pretty cool, somewhat odd to march up those 300 steps with all the leaning and such, but we made do. The tower was actually a lot shorter than I had envisioned, only 60 meters. Other than the Tower we visited a church that was right next to it, yeah I know a church in Italy very odd occurence. Also when we were in pisa this freak winter storm hit. It started snowing like mad, and the wind was blowing so hard I was afraid I might have gotten pulled off the tower.
The Last two nights Vegas and I have hung out with our Aussie friends. I don’t know how it happens but we keep ending up in an English Pub every night. My theory is as long as we don’t go to an American style bar I’m not breaking any of my visiting my own culture rules. It was quite lovely last night in Florence though, with all the snow coming down, everything had that post blizzard glow. This morning I woke up to the sound of all the lil Italian kids outside playing in the snow. It was quite funny, they even built a snowman 🙂
I was half tempted to run out there and start a snowball fight. But I had far more important things to see today such as the Bargello, and the Science Museum here in Firenze. The Bargello was great, it had tons of great sculpture and artifacts from olden years. Those bastards wouldn’t let me take pictures though, so I got suckered in to buying a big book of Art from their gift shop. We also checked out the Science museum which was loaded with early 1800’s artifacts of nauticulness, pumps, scales, maps, and statues of unborn babies, quite an odd sight I might add. Impressive stuff, though they still wouldn’t let us take pictures. In the end I decided a big book of old math stuff wasn’t really all that interesting so I held off on that purchase. After visiting this museum I can’t help but wonder if in 50 years my TI-89 Calculator will be put on display in some plastic case. “Look kids back in the 90’s people used their fingers to do math!”