After what seemed like a good week of straight rain, we finally got some sun today! And looking at the weather, it looks like sun's gunna be the norm for the next week.

On account of the good weather, me and a few friends decided to walk around the city a bit today. Lucky for us, there was a cool bazaar taking place in the piazza right next to our apt. They had a bunch of meats, cheeses, wines, and all kinds of marmalades and what not. Check it out.

This is Piazza Santa Croce, and when you turn around, you're greeted with one hell of a church. From my experience so far, this is the hot spot for all the asian tourists. EVERY time I turn off of my street and into the piazza, there is literally a stampede of asian tourists in some travel group on their way to something. I've yet to figure out where they're heading because I don't see them in hoards like this other places in the city. That may be some of them in the top left corner of the next picture...I'm gunna try to figure it out and get back to you. Priority #1.

We ended up buying some proscuitto, salami and these biscotti with huge chunks of dark chocolate. I wish i had a picture of the salami; its all moldy on the outside and it looks pretty awful, but it tastes great.

After that, we walked another 5 minutes to Piazza della Signoria, where they have the Palazzo Vecchio and a whole bunch of great sculptures.

After hanging out here for a bit waiting for one of our friends to meet us, we decided to go to this pizzeria we went to once that we liked, it's Dante themed. After a while of searching and finally deciding we didn' remember where it was, we just sorta hung out by the Duomo for a bit and eventually grabbed lunch at some crappy pizzeria. Oh well, the Duomo was nice today though.

This doesn't really do Duomo justice. There's a lot more to it than this. I couldn't even get the top of it in the shot, the picture probably only shows 1/2 of the height of it. I'll get some more pictures of it some time soon, its pretty cool.

That was about it for today. I didn't even really go out tonight. I just played cards...still fun though. I think this week or next weekend I'm gunna head to Pisa with a few friends.

In other news, I can't remember if i mentioned it in my other post, but i ate something for lunch the other day from a street vendor/cart thing and I had no idea what it was. Me and my Turkish friend saw a bunch of people crowded around the cart so we just went up and ordered 2 of whatever it was. I learned later that it was lampredotto, which, after our little old lady wine shop friend translated for me, I found out was another name for tripe (intestine). It was good, and a fairly interesting, but I thought it might've been something weirder than that, like brains...o well.

Alrighty, more pictures to follow in the next few days. Hope you're enjoying your weekend.