My day had a less than stellar start today. My roommate left early this morning (shortly after I got in from the club) and thankfully left the door to the room unlocked. After missing numerous phone calls and knocks (or pounds) on the door, Shereise walks in and wakes me up to tell me that it is 10am and the group is getting ready to leave on the final tour of Florence. Getting ready in 30 minutes is hard for me to do, but somehow I managed to get ready in 3 minutes and run downstairs before the group left me. I am really happy I made it. We ended up going to Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore. It is a huge cathedral with a bell tower next to it. After walking inside and being told about the history and the art inside, we walked back outside and saw the gold doors. Each set told a story from the bible. We then decided to be brave souls and climb to the top of the dome of the church. 486 steps (and bouts of claustrophobia and acrophobia) later we reached the top. The view of Florence was amazing and the day was so clear (finally) that I’m pretty sure I saw my house (kidding). We stayed up there for a while but then eventually we started out descend back to the street. We went back to the hotel and started packing for our trip home we would be making the next day.
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