I don't think that there is much that our feet didn't walk over on our first day in Florence. After taking in the Cathedral, the markets, trying to get in to see David, eating the best pizza of my life, and taking in a food market that puts every single farmer's market I've ever been in to shame, we decided to go take in the Boboli Gardens in the southern part of the city. It was a scorcher (to this Alaskan, at least!) of a day, so we got off of the unshaded main paths as quickly as possible and tried to get lost in the wooded back paths. Considering we had never been there we found it pretty hard to actually get lost, but we did manage to find ponds with statues of Neptune rising out of them, terraces that offered stunning views of Florence, and a flat flower garden that looked over Tuscany. We rested there for a few minutes, taking in the scene, before heading back to the lawns surrounding Neptune's pond to take a nap under a tree.
It was a good day.
(Check out that bling bling he's got going on! Shiny!!!)
This photo is from our honeymoon. If you'd like large resolution, enlargement-quality copies of any of the files you see from our adventures in Italy, please leave a comment and let me know.