2004-10-28 |Florence, ItalyToday I woke up and was lacking motivation. That's why you guys got thatfinal reflection thing. Once I was done listening to that song, I wasperusing through my Eurail time table and I noticed something veryinteresting. I saw that the train to Florence was only 2 hours. Once I readthat, I was set... I was going to see the statue of David.

The reason I was so psyched just to see one statue was because of a guy Imet in Corfu. This guy was great, he and his friends would constantly referto me as THE DAVID. They would kind of praise me a little and it was kind offlattering in a way. They did this probably because I wore the statue ofDavid boxers and also because I wore a halo I made with my toga and alsobecause I guess I look like him. Anyway, one night he told me all about itand how he stared at a mans ass for 30 minutes. I was so psyched.... notabout the ass.... but he was like "it doesn't matter when you see it, but inyour lifetime when you see it you must email me to tell me all about it".

So I was off on a train heading for Florence, I wrote that finalreflection and composed my lack of motivation. Plus it was nice to get afinal trip in with my rail pass before it expires. I arrived in and Itotally didn't need help with my bearings... every road I went down Inavigated with ease (probably because I had bought a nice map of florencebefore I left). It was raining pretty hard and there were some huge puddleson the way. I had lunch at this really storage coffee shop which had onesandwich to choose from.

When I got to the museum, I went immediately to him.... and the trip wastotally worth it. The statue is some 40 feet tall and is one of the greatestsculptures I have ever seen. I cant describe him too much, but he isdefinitely the most beautiful man on the planet.

I did some shopping and bought Susan something. I thought it would matchwith this other thing I bought her... but I failed in remember in colorcombinations. This is probably teasing her on her gifts, but its all in goodfun. Shopping was interesting though.

I then jumped on the first train I found... this was a bad mistake. Thetrain I jumped on was an IC (inter city train) and it made stops at everysmall train station on the way to Rome. I thought I would make a meeting fordinner with some friends but my train took about 4 or 5 hours. I got back tothe hostel finally and did something very bad. I broke down and hadMcDonalds. I was so hungry and it just called my name. The fries wereexcellent!!! I got back to the hostel and chit chatted with some Ozzies andthen went to bed. It was a day trip that was entirely well worth it.