Pisa/Florence/Livorno
Tuesday (6-30)
Our first stop in Italy. We did a 10 hour tour to Florence and Pisa (just just don't pronounce it "pizza". They take a real offense to that). This city surprised me with the history of the place. Yes, it had a shitload of old churches. What a surprise. I was just surprised with the amount of history it had. The people that called this place home. The things I knew that related to this place. If I said that I had a place on this cruise that I didn't expect to enjoy, this was the place.
An old Church. The first of many.
The tour had these cool things. We each had a receiver. They gave us head phones and we could hear what the tour guild had to say. He just talked and we could hear what he said. It was way cool. He had a flag to follow and we just kept on going. This guy in Florence talked the whole time. Other tours we had didn't say as much and we got tired of hearing him breathing. But this guy was good.
I've seen pictures of Italian town and city streets. I thought they were staged. No. People really do sit out there looking pathetic. I saw them. Not the guy with 4 teeth but I saw the rest of them.
Did I say they have big churches here. These things are huge.
This is the other side of the square. This thing is big.
This was the point that Jake realized this was learning. He got pissed. This is summer vacation. I don't need to learn anything, do I?
Big F'in churches.
And skinny f'n streets. Look in the middle of the pic. You see the "No Entry" sign. Yeah, the Dego's payed attention that.
OK, so you have 40 tourists walking down a skinny assed street. Sure, we can fit a taxi, and a police van. Anything more, we need lubricant.
The Italians love their mopeds.
This pic is of a curved apartment building. It is curved because they build on the foundations. This was a Coliseum. They just added some bricks and called it something else. That was 1000 years ago. And they just keep building on top of old foundations. That is why it is so fucked up to drive in Italy. The Italians are still trying to drive at 60 mph when Jesus was alive. Things were a bit slower then.
But I think these Port-A-Potties were there when they were working on the original. I Could be wrong.
We were here at the tome of Dante. This same church had the Tombs of Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Donatello. I was hoping to finish of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but Rafael was buried elsewhere. I didn't see it but I was close in Rome.
We have a huge amount on history in front of us. On the left, we have David, the perfect male. In the middle, we have some dick that shoved his head into the picture but it is clear he is fag, because he is gazing upon David's member. And on the right, we have the first documented "Tea Bag". I'd just like to note that this was made thousands of years before we had a Cleveland, OH.
Kathy and Jake
Look to the center of the pic. This is where Hannibal killed the Inspector in the Move "Hannibal"
Now we have the cheesy pics. Jake #1
Jen, holding up the world.
Cheesy
Way Cheesy.
This looks like the best of them.
This is New. Holding the thing up. Look at the rest of the people. Just gives you an idea what goes on there. What if they were doing Porn Shots. It opens a whole new realm.
You know, that thing really leans