Wondering about Steele & Holt? Revisit our previous stories (you know, like reruns) until March sweeps. We will give you some teasers: Mildred was seen boarding the ship with Michael Gleason not far behind yelling “you can’t let ‘em ‘do it’, that’ll cause us to get cancelled! I’ll find another husband for Laura!”
As for us, we had an early tour to Pisa, which left us leaning in different
directions. Strange but true: it actually leans like a banana due to various attempts to straighten it over the centuries. (Xenos, we don’t want to hear any banana jokes from you.)Next we drove over to Firenze, aka Florence. It’s as beautiful as people say with the 4th largest cathedral and another church whose façade is covered with white Carrara marble, which is mined in the nearby hills. Unfortunately we couldn’t get into any of the major museums due to the length of the lines. We did see a number of sculptures outside the Uffizi museum of famous Firenzians through the centuries. There’s also a scale replica of the famous David statue just outside the Uffizi but, just our luck, it was covered in scaffolding. (Jilly, lalalala) The jiggly bits however were still visible. Xenos we have closeups just for you. (End lalalala)
In search of a place for lunch we ran into Pierce. He was going to join us for lunch but he got trapped inside and couldn’t make it.
We ended up at a quaint outdoor café on the edge of a local piazza market. We all ordered pizza as we realized we had yet to have any authentic Italian pizza (the stuff on the ship doesn’t count). We met back up with the group at the Santa Croce piazza and Auburn & Mickey decided to tour the church to see the tombs of famous people from Florence including Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangleo, Machiavelli, Amerigo Vespucci, Enrico Fermi and G. Marconi. We saw the steps down to the crypts and Auburn paused, seriously considering a foray down there for an up-close-and-personal look but we weren’t wearing our black break-in clothes so we’ll save that for another day. We left Florence planning another trip to Italy where we could spend several days each in Florence, Venice and Rome so we could have time to see everything we want. Start saving your Euros now!We completed the day by packing in 20 minutes (as opposed to the days and hours it took us to pack FOR the trip), having dinner with the entire group and one final feather boa parade to the hot tub. Sleezy is inviting herself to Sleenky’s house to enjoy HER hot tub next week!
