Holy Duomo Thats Big

Hello all you avid blog followers! We coming to the close of day 3 and Florence has yet to let us down. Today was a great day but it started out a little rough. By that, I mean, we got up at 9am to go to a meeting that we didnt have to. I guess that was just the engineer in us and a little bit of our nerdyness wanting to go to everything we could for school like good boys. Hopefully our moms are proud. Anyways, it turned out to be a good thing because it got us up and moving around Florence early.
We piddle paddle around Florence for a while and ended up grabbing a quick piece of pizza at a little store by our school. They also had FANTA!!! Apparently its really popular here. After that we walked around some more (this will be a daily trend...Italians aren't fat because they walk all the time and sweet 24/7). We decided to go to the train station to scope out some train tickets, and of course to catch a glipse of some gypsies!!! Well we didn't really get anywhere with getting the tickets or finding gypsies. Luckily they didn't find us either.
When we got back me and the scott man decided that it was no better day than to climb the Duomo...all 437 steps of it. It was 8 euro well spent. The Duomo might be one of the largest and coolest buildings I've ever been in. It is tremendous (don't worry, pictures are soon to come). We started our ascent to base camp one. Apparently Italians are pretty small because these stair wells are TINY!!! None the less, Brutelesci (sorry about butchering the spelling...I'm an engineer...not a Englech magor) is the man. How he was able to construct and engineer this dome is beyond belief. The whole dome is painted as well. I think a guy named Michalangelo helped out on it...not sure if you've heard of him....he's a pretty big deal around here supposedly. Nevertheless, the view from the top was breath taking and money well spent...me and scott got some good quality time at the top...lots of pictures.
Dinner was something out of a movie. We found a place right by the Ponte Veccio over looking the Arno. It was kind of pricey but well worth it. No better way to usher in a Florentine sunset. After that we walked to our favorite gelato place thus far and got us some dessert. We also found an awesome musician around the corner. Great day all around.