Day 7.

Hello!

So today I woke up at 8 and went to Siena with some of the girls. We got our tickets the day before and made our way onto the train. Once we already got going we were told to give up our tickets to the conductor. She then proceeded to say that we needed to have gotten them validated before hand and had to pay 40 euro each for "our" mistake. Even though we had no clue we had to do it. So that was quite a damper on our day.

But we spent the day walking all around beautiful Siena. We went to piazza del campo and saw big brick buildings and huge churches. All by small winding streets with green shutters and a Tuscan style. There were houses with flower boxes on their window seals and lines drying clothing. We also bought a pass that was 10 euro and we were able to see the inside of the duomo, baptistry, crypts and 3 museums. It was fun and very pretty. We also went to lunch and had a wonderful meal. I had a pasta with mushrooms and sausage that was great.

We then proceeded to head home and boarded the train with no problems. Ironically even we were never even asked for our tickets.

When we got home we headed over to this weekends gelato festival. It is wonderful! You can get 5 gelatos for 4 euro. What a wonderful weekend to be here.

After that I finished reading the amazing book, Redeeming Love. I cried it was so good! Then we went to dinner for the 2nd time at il gato y volpa and I had chicken with lemon and capers and mushrooms. Soooooo good!! Then we went back to the gelato festival and got gelato. It's even more fun at night because people from everywhere came for the fest and were just strolling around the streets. The people love to window shop here.

Tomorrow morning is another packed day where the group is headed to Venice!!

Love you and miss you,
Alyssa



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Location:Piazza Il Campo,Sienna,Italy