Rduff's Second Post

Febuary 5th, 2011...Rduff's 2nd post

Dur be a chocolate festival right here in Santa Croce. Italian chocolate is good. There's a bunch of crazy stuff here, like candy with alcohol, and every fruit imaginable dipped in chocolate...this is a view of the festival from our apartment window:

My mom and I went to the University of Florence's "La Specola" Museum of Zoology today that had a bunch of animal models and wax anatomy models of bodies from the 1700s. It was a huge museum, and I was pretty impressed. They had specimens of most animals. The animal below is a rhino.

There is this cool parade thing that they're doing outside around the chocolate festival. It's trumpet and drum players with some knights and a bunch of guys doing flag tricks, as you can see below. You can't really see, but on each flag there is Florence's symbol. That symbol is everywhere in the city. I guess they like bragging!

..they're still playing outside...it never stops!


So other than that stuff, we're still getting used to Florence. I'm starting to like the school a little bit more. I would say that I know my way around the city pretty well now. I could get home from most parts of the city...One thing I'm pretty annoyed about is the fact that it has snowed 4 days in a row in Dallas. I wish I wasn't missing that..Oh well, hopefully it snows here, which it has not yet.


My birthday is in 10 days, so I'm excited for that too