Hayley is coming to florence!!!!!

Today was my super long day of classes. got up at 8 had a quick bfast than ran to class. Had MG class first where we went over a bunch of econ stuff but thanks to my awesome econ teacher snyder from bentley i already knew everything that we were talking about, and our teacher thought me and the other bentley kids in my class were just super smart haha than i had history of the medici family class, the begining was SO boring bc my teacher is the most unexciting person ever butttt for the second half of class we went on a field trip to the san lorenzo church and that was super cool. San lorenzo was a saint because he used to work for a king who asked him to collect all the townspeoples money and jewels because he needed it to pay people off, instead of taking the people valuable san lorenzo brought all the townspeople to the king and said the people are your jewels you dont need money...so the king burned him on a grill! The grill was a common symbol throughout the church. For example all the columns in the church has architectural "grills" on them:

We went to see this church because it was commissioned to be built by Cosimo Medici. The Medici family crest was all over the church, and Cosimo and his sons and a few others in the medici family are buried there. Their tombs were really cool, very intricate, huge and gorgeous. The outside of the church is actually not that pretty, but as soon as you walk in its breathtaking and huge. Its all grey and white stone, and the ceiling has gold ornamentation on it. The gold was added on later during the baroque period when using gold to decorate architecture became popular.This is the outside of the church....

and than here is the inside....

So that was pretty cool. Unfortunately we had to rushhhh out of the church after the tour b/c me amanda and sarah all had italian next and we had a quiz! I was a lil nervous but it turned out to be really easy and i think i got 100 :) good way to start the semester! finally italian was over and my long class day was done! I came back and went to the gym, and than after was starving and knew i wouldnt be able to hold out till dinner so went to the 99cent store and bought a ton of snacks, and the lady there was really nice i either had to give her a 50euro bill or i was like 30cents short so she just let me have the snacks for 30cents cheaper haha than i came back and showered and am now realizing till dinner at 8. Im super excited for this weekend, im always excited for the weekend but this ones even better bc HAYLEYS COMING TONIGHT!!!! she gets in around 8 or 9!!!!!! im sooo excited to take her around florence and party together. Its only been a few weeks but feels like i havent seen her in forever. were going to have so much fun! shes staying tonight and friday. saturday night she leaves for cinque terra i believe and is doing a day trip there sunday. sunday i think ill be doing a day trip to pisa, so of course ill have to take my picture with the tower haha anyways im going to take a quick nap and than eat dinner and than the fun weekend begins! woo!