Florence, Pisa and Rome O My!

 Day one on the cruise we stopped in Marseilles, France and we got off the ship, we looked around and than we got back on  the boat haha after traveling so much it was nice to be able to have a day to juwt relax.Day two we docked in Liverno, Italy. We got on a bus with a tour group and we drove for about an hour til we reached Florence . The streets were pretty dirty  and smelled like urine but we had a tour guide to show us exactly where to go so that made it extremely nice,as we reached the main share we saw a church where the lead us in a big square and told us about the city . They had this funny little shop that everything they sold was made of wood, and most of the items related to Pinocchio they even had a life size Pinocchio you could take a picture of along with one a wood nose and hat that you could put your face in it, it was quite funny and I have a picture to show but on my camera.  We than had lunch in an former palace! It was a really pretty building and we sat next  to some pretty funny people.At the end they left us with a little free time to shop where me and my mom found these beautiful scarves for €5 and there 70% cashmere. So we now the proud owners of matching  turquoise scarves.  Than It started raining and had a plethora amount of guys try to sell us umbrellas, we didn't buy from any of them... Until we got to Pisa. As we pulled up to Pisa it was a downpour and no joke like 30 guys ran to get to the bus , pushing and shoving to sell us umbrellas( it was humorous)... And we bought two. There both have some popular scenes from all around Italy, very cute.  But even than we had people trying to sell us umbrellas as if we didn't already have one in our hand. One guy in the group eventually tried to sell his umbrella from back home in then US to one of the guys who was trying to sell then to us for €5 at the end and the guys goes "I'll see you this umbrella for € 6 " and the man goes in a heavily Italian accent with pride in his voice " from Italy" and the guy from our group paused for a second and replies " but this is from America" and we all laughed even the Italian umbrella man smiled.Through the rain we walked to famous Leaning Tower of Pisa  to learn a little bit about it from our guide, toke a few pictures and browsed around the grounds.

      The third day we got to go to Rome. We got on a tour bus,drove for about fourth five mins got off at the Coloseem which we both loved we had an amazing guide who really taught us a lot. We got  walk in and around walk around and take some pictures. We learned that what's you see left of the Colossem is only 1/3 of what it used to be! I didn't expect that much of the Colossem but it has been one of my favorite things to see, a lot of the history is sad because many people and animals died there but the seer immensity and architecture of the building is phenomenal ! We than went to Vatican which was a cool experience we got to walk through a museum. In one room they had all these hand painted maps that were beautiful. Lots of beautifuln ceilings- but most of the places we go to see have beautiful ceilings , many times they are more beautiful than what is being held in the room. Mom was really excited to see the 16 Chaples and when we arrived we had security guards yelling at the hundred + people to be quiet , not take pictures and  to squash to the other side of the room, the feeling wasn't so great but it was nice room. Not as great as I expected after all the reviews of it, but it was massive, just overrated in a way. We toured a church which was beautiful, we got to touch one of the lucky statues foot, saw some beautiful statues and was told that Peter the apostle is baried there. We than ended in a Vatican gift show where you can get holy water, coins and prayer necklaces all blessed by the Vatican. I bought a postcard and payed about a dollar and a half for a stamp and send it from the Vatican post box to home.

   Both days were about 10 hours of walking around and getting to see some beautiful places and at night we were able to come back to the ship, eat some nice food and hit the hay. Though we did so much both days there still didn't seem to have enough time there which left us missing a few places or just driving past them. One of the places that I was sad that we didn't get to see was Trevi Fountain in Rome but there's only so much you can fit in a day and were still packed with some great experiences.

   One thing that's really made us laugh is when we disembark for things these two guy photographers see us, they always say " the sisters " really excitingly, which makes us laugh even when we've told them were mother and daughter, or sometimes I get "Barbie". The photographers are just everywhere, in the hall, at dinner, on deck, on land  ...everywhere, we try to avoid them haha  but they make us laugh.

 * ill try to get pictures up of Spain and Italy