Dear Florence, you stole my heart. Love, Kristin

Hello 3 people who are actually reading this! Hope every one is enjoying their Friday. Mine will be filled with blueberry tea, work, more work, a little school, and hopefully a date night! I'm sitting here flipping through pictures of Florence and getting lost all over again in this romantic city. What I liked about my trip to Europe for the first time was the fact that I really hadn't done any research on any of the places. Sure I knew Venice had gondulas and Germany had beer but I went in with a completly blank slate of what to expect. Florence is jaw dropping. I remember running down an alley in the rain and saying to Bobbye Jo "I was born to love Paris but made to live in Florence!" I remember how the rain smelt, my red polka dot dress, the taste of esspresso gelato, and the wonder of the city.

Always order tea in France and coffee in Italy!

The fountain of Neptune

Palazzo Vecchio

Florence is littered with copies of Michelangeo's "David" to find the real one, you'll have to go inside the Accademia Gallery. If you don't want to spend the money to get in, at least walk through it to see the statues of Da Vinci and Galileo.

Piazza Michaelangelo as you can see, is covered in sculpture and I highly reccomend a tour guide to explain all of them.

(my favorite: Medusa)

This is Ponte Veccio, one of the 6 bridges that the Nazis did not destroy during World War 2 (August of 1944). This bridge is still in tact today regaurdless of it being 700 years old! On the bridge you can find a lot of jewlery stores and other luxuries.

Touching the boar on the nose will grant you another trip to Florence!

The famous Cathedral. And please, Jersey shore (even though I love you), understand that this is NOT the Vatican. Ugh.

Florence is a wonderful place to invest in leather and silver. If you plan on going here, I highly reccomend saving a little extra spending money. I absolutley fell in love with this ring that I had to part with becasue I didn't plan for it! Maybe it's still waiting for me...