September 27, 2010

I am in Impruneta, Italy. We are in the upper leg of the Italian boot.

Sunday there was the best parade I ever saw in my life! It had giant floats, people were dancing, and cows pulling trailers. It was sooo awesome!

Instead of throwing candy like you do in most parades, they threw grapes. Green grapes and red grapes that they harvested from their backyards because everyone has at least one grapevine in their backyard. It’s really cool here, I really, really, really like it here.

Yesterday I went to Florence, Italy, which is a famous town near Impruneta. We went to Galileo Galilee’s museum. He is a famous scientist who invented the telescope and I saw the biggest telescope I’ve ever seen. There are a lot of carriages and horses in Florence instead of taxis like in New York. There are tons of sculptures and we are going to see the famous sculpture of David chucking a rock at Goliath, who is a giant from the Bible. A man named Michelangelo carved it from 1501 to 1504 from one giant piece of marble, that is one of the most famous sculptures of all time.

Sorry that I haven’t written a blog in a really really really long time. I’ve just been really really really busy. So today is a boring day because it’s getting cold and right now we are in our camper catching up on homework in our sweaters. We are looking out at the sea (the Mediterranean) up on a balcony with scuba divers in the water below us and flies are terrorizing our camper.