On Sunday, August 17th, my friends and I decided to take a detour and stop by Pisa before heading to Rome from Siena. I've been to Pisa a couple of times, so it wasn't anything to amazing to me - although I still find it shocking that it leans so much. I still haven’t been to the top (wasn’t enough time this trip), but one day maybe I will.
One interesting thing that happened though as we entered the Square of Miracles as it's called (area where the Leaning Tower, Church & Baptistery are) was that I ran into a tour director named Marco that was our tour director 4 years ago when my family & I did a guided tour in Italy. Marco was the best tour director and I've been meaning to write him ever since I moved to Rome, but kept forgetting. As I walked into the area amidst the crowd there he stood. So I went up to him and said 'Marco do you remember me?' He said of course - you were on my tour with your family...you have the hard last name and were here for your parents' 40th wedding anniversary. I was so surprised he remembered! I couldn't talk to him long because he was looking for 2 lost members of his tour, but I had enough time to tell him I was living in Rome. It was so nice to run into him!
For the rest of this week I'll be in Rome, so probably no more blogs about my adventures until my other friend comes and we do more traveling (I don’t want to tell you yet where all we will be going – you’ll have to come back and read my blog after I write about it to find out! :-p)
Here is a link to some pictures I took in Pisa: http://www.new.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3871740&l=fa903&id=800405227
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