OH MY GOD

OK, so this is going to be a really quick blog because I have a lot to blog about but about 20 minutes to fit it in.  So instead, this one is going to focus on just how amazing this is.  I'm in an absolutely gorgeous house (pictures to come later tonight) with literally breathtaking views.  Florence, from where we are staying, looks like heaven on earth.  There's THE Duomo (dome) which is this huge church in the center of the city and you can see the dome over the rest of the town. Anyways, we arrived in Florence safely (no one got taken) and decided to walk to the property where we are staying.  What should have been a 40 minute walk, turned into two hours because we got lost so many times, it was pretty comical.  Lesson learned: If you're going down hill, you're wrong. 

We ended up walking down a private street in a gated community where each house was HUGE and had their own vineyard.  By the time we reached the end of the wrong private road, we were delirious with fatigue and kept making jokes about being taken (reference to the movie) so when the woman who was supposed to let us into the property wouldn't answer and we were being followed by an old man and were surrounded on the other side by two young men who didn't speak English, we were pretty sure that Liam was going to have to come save us.  But, then we became concerned for the woman who was supposed to let us into the house because when we finally got a hold of her phone, instead of the sweet American woman we had been speaking to, an angry Italian man started shouting...But, turns out she wasn't taken, we were just lost/calling the wrong number. 

So I'm kind of just rambling because we literally just sat down in the house where we are staying and it is obscenely opulent.  The rooms are huge and incredibly decorated with a rustic theme.  So there will be more about Florence and early today later tonight or tomorrow.

Sorry for the rushed, and chaotic post, to make it up to you, here are four pictures (that's all I could upload while I was typing this).