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Published: April 24th 2010
so today, after i woke up, i took a shower, and packed my backpack. we headed out, grandma, becky, mary sue, and i. we headed over to the museo del opera. it was breathtaking. one of my favorite things was seeing the room where Michaelangelo sculpted the David, and hearing all the wonderful stories about it. he was quite a trickster! if someone important came into his workshop and told him to change something on David, he would climb up to the statue, and with a knife and marble dust, he would pretend to fix it, but only to make them happy. he wouldn't let anyone make him change it. i thought that was really cool. also, we got to see some fingers, jawbones, and an arm from saints. yuck! but cool. i also was enthralled by the mary magdalene, the choir cathedral pieces, and the original plaques showing human work from the campanile. incredible. also, the pieta was jaw dropping. it was cool that michaelangelo put his face into it. then grandma, becky, and i walked around the duomo and the campanile and looked at all the different doors. we headed over by piazza republica so i could stop at the atm, and so we could get gelato. i got menta. YUM!! i loved it. then we headed over to the bargello. it was my first time experiencing museum security. you had to go through a metal detector and put any and all backpacks or purses on a conveyor for the x-ray thingy. it was like the airport all over again! i beeped when i went through the detector because of my digital camera and flip camera. i told the security guy it was a camera as i took it out after he wanded my right leg, and then he wanded my left leg and it beeped again and i said it was another camera and he looked at me like i had 7 heads because i had two cameras. i had to explain that one was for photos and one was for videos. once i got past security, they wouldn't let me go into the museum with my backpack, but other people were. they took some backpacks, but not others. it was odd. but once we finally got in, it was amazing. the thing that got me the most was that people can make fabric look so effortless and liquidy when it is made out of solid stone. incredible. i liked donnatello's david. it was the sassiest david i have seen! and then we also saw a drunk baccus. it was interesting... but overall, today was a great day. and it's only 5:30! who know what will happen tonite! i will try to post some videos i took today. Ciao!
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This is great! Can I please have some paragraphs? Did you get to see the original baptistry door panels? Did you get to see the choir lofts by Donatello and della Robbia? One of those is Grandma's favorite beautiful Florentine thing to look at, after David of course, I just can't remember which she prefers.