The Uffizi with Quan and Sarah

We've spent hundreds of dollars on museums and amazing meals with Sarah and Quan (Aviathar's son and his girlfriend who flew in from London).

Today, I saw The Birth of Venus by Botticelli (in the Uffizi) and Night and Day statues by Michelangelo (in the Medici chapel) and a few da Vinci's. The Michelangelo statue here is of "Day" and shows a man with an unfinished face (pictured here). Unfinished because the day is unfinished . . . Fiorentini (I think that's how you spell it) has so many beautiful paintings as well. Yesterday we walked through the Boboli gardens outside the Palazio and saw an amazing recreation of a Pompeii house. They collected rain and used the power from the collected rain to create beautiful fountains. Amazing and so long ago. Here we are now just learning how to do this again.

And each home had its own garden with food, herbs and medicines. Once again, a sign that we should move in this direction in our homes. Not just a few in the countryside but right in towns across America.

There is much hope here in Italy that Obama will be elected. They are following the American election very closely here. It is the talk in many places and makes front page news everyday. Here in Italy they are convinced that he will win. What is the feeling there?? The world is watching us!!!!