Easter Hike

Hello friends! Happy Easter!!!!! This is my favorite day of the year. Not only do we celebrate Christ's resurrection but we get to do it with most of the world!! Let me tell you about my day. This morning I woke up early, put on my Easter dress I bought in Rome, went to the corner cafe for a biscuit and coffee, met an American couple from Jersey who has a daughter that lives in Greenville [small world!!!!!], then i waited for my friends for an hour [actually a good thing because even though I could have been sleeping another hour also meant that I was the first one ready, finally. woop woop!], then when they got here we headed over to the Cathedral for the start of the Easter celebrations. It will be hard to explain what happened next but I will try. And those of you who are my facebook friends should look at the video on facebook to better understand. Well they have this tradition where a massive decorative cart, rigged with fireworks, is pulled by oxen to the front of the Duomo. Then a fake dove comes out of the church on a zip-line and strikes the cart, starting the fireworks off. The fireworks were so fun and lasted about ten minutes. After that we went into the church for a tri-lingual service. Then Kelly, Kelli, Tom and I took a bus to a little town on a hill outside of Florence called Fiesole. We walked around this precious little town for a couple hours, lay in the park, and then headed back to the bus stop. After sitting there for about 30 minutes we find out that the buses had stopped an hour before because it was Easter! So then we walked back to Florence in our dresses and sandals, desperately trying to hitch a ride. Note to future travelers, people don't hitch hike in Florence. We had one car pull over but it was full of sketchy guys and obviously not enough room for all four of us. So now I am a bit sunburned and my feet are raw but it was an adventure!

Happy Easter!!!