Siena.

first of all, i just want to say that i love how random italy is. kim and i were just walking here, chatting and eating our valentines day lollypops, and some random waitor at a restaurant starts singing the lollypop song. was pretty funny. i love italy.

anyway, stef, danielle, and i went to siena for the day yesterday. I really liked it, it wasnt too sunny, but it was still very nice. we got there and decided to stop at the mcdonalds and eat there, all because i wanted a baci mcflurry. you seriously have no idea how good those things are. i decided that im goign to write a letter to ronald mcdonald and tell him that we need that flurry in the US.

so after that, we walked to campo del something. i dont remember. but its the really famous piazza, where they race the horses every july or something like that. so we were there and i had to take a whole role of motion pictures for my photography class by today, so i had stefanie running through the pigeons and taking running leaps and jumping and stuff in the middle of the piazza. it was pretty funny. oh the things i make my friends do for my art projects...

so after we goofed off in there for a while, we started walkign and attempting to get to the market. but got lost. and i took some more motion pictures of cars and vespas and things like that. so we got to see some random residential areas and got a nice workout on all the hilly streets, and we ended up back at campo. so from there we went to the duomo that was there...we didnt go in. but the outside was really pretty. gothic style. i really liked it. apparently they had started building it and were trying to make it better than florence, but they never finished it because the plague hit. so there are like unfinished naves and stuff, it was pretty interesting.

from there, we went back to campo again. and danielle got a pizza and i ran up to a pizza store just so i could get a picture with a pizza box in italy. really random day. i think i was delirious...tired and hyped up on caffiene. so from there we went to this saint's house. Saint catherine or something. so we went to her house, and it was pretty. and then we went to the church. san domenico i believe. and we knew it had st catherine's head. so im thinkin...its a skull, thats pretty cool, lets go see it. and stef is thinking...you're really not going to be able to see her head, and danielle didnt really seem to care if we saw it or not. lol.

so we look at a map when we get into the church and we go straight for the head, and im like, the heads to the right! the heads coming up to the right!! ew. it was really her head. like presereved. and we had seen preserved popes and other saints in other churches and it was creepy, but it was the whole body....this was just a head....and it looked liek they didnt preserve her right away. yea really gross. so we were scarred for life. yet couldnt stop looking at it, so we finally get too creeped out cuz we kept expecting her to open her eyes, so we walked around the rest of the church and sat down in the first pew. and decided that we didnt really like the style of the art in this church. the stain glass pictures were like picassos, but were just really creepy. bizarre.

and then we went back to mcdonalds to use the bathroom and stef wanted a baci mcflurry...yea, we're addicted. and then we got back on the bus and come home. it was a good day trip. i enjoyed it. excpet for the head.

so this weekend we go to Torino! so i'll write more soon!

oh, and im gonna try to import a few more pics of the french riviera from this weekend.

ci vediamo!