Fun day in Florence

Fountain of Neptune in Boboli Gardens

Yesterday katie and I went to Florence after a great short tour in the morning (massive english-speaking group of art deans from around the world that we split up and took around at the same time). When we got to Florence we got gelato (the new flavour I tried was Mille Foglie, basically like crushed up phyllo pastry in ice cream), and then went to see the Boboli gardens and Bardini gardens... a big florence site that neither of us has been to before. We figured we probably should go. It was very pretty, but extremely exhausting in the blazing sun and after not too long we were all gardened out. 

Then we went and got cannoli and then met up with Katie's new friend Francis that she met on my birthday, and his very nice friend Greg who is doing a trip around Italy and Turkey and was in Florence just for the day & night. Francis has been working in florence for 2 years as a program director for Rutgers' study abroad program but it just got cancelled so he's out of a job and is moving back to NYC on monday so yesterday he was moving all of his stuff. The four of us walked around a bit and then i went off for about half an hour to see a museum  exhibition of art works by Picasso, Dali, and Miro which was cool (Katie and Francis had already seen it last week so thats why they didn't come). I regrouped with Greg, Katie and Francis who had gone to Francis' apartment to grab his TV and a frying pan to take to his other friend Nick's house.

After that errand was done, the 5 of us went to a bar and had some beers and then the 3 guys went off to some dinner at a friend's house and Katie and I went for INDIAN FOOOOOD. The only thing that tastes better than Indian food, is Indian food when you haven't had any for several months! Incredible. Satiated, we went down to the Arno (the river that runs through Florence) to watch some fireworks (I don't remember the occasion).

Indian fooooood!

Statue outside of Palazzo Pitti

Statue in Boboli Gardens

Statue in Boboli Gardens

Fountain behind Palazzo Pitti

Statue in Bardini Gardens

Statue in Bardini Gardens

View from Bardini Gardens

Bardini Gardens

My new gal pal in Bardini Gardens

Canine friend in Bardini Gardens

We found the Hossein Golba Lover's Fountains in Boboli Gardens! (We have the same series of fountains at Celle. These are the only contemporary permanent work in the Boboli Gardens)