MADDIE: After Rome we took a train to Florence. We met our Grandma there. Florence was really cool, unfortunately, we didn't have any WiFi in our apartment, so we couldn't blog there. The highlights of our trip for me were El Duomo, a church with a giant dome with a painting on it of hell, earth, and heaven. The painting is amazing, and the people that are painted are probably 3 times the size of me. You can climb to the top of the dome and I did with my mom. At the top you can look at the city down below. It was beautiful! On the way home from El Duomo my mom and I got lost. We went down one street and figured out that it was the wrong street. Then we went down another, and figured out that was wrong too. We asked a bunch of people for directions, but no one knew the way to our small little street. After awhile I got pretty nervous and we had no money or phone with us. It got really cold out and we didn't have sweatshirts either. But, then we saw my dad standing down the street and smiling at us. He was our hero!
The next day we went to the Leonardo da Vinci Museum. It was really cool because you got to actually turn the cranks and pull the levers on all of his inventions. There was a house of mirrors that Gui Gui loved. He went in again and again. The thing about the House of Mirrors was that there were 8 mirrors forming an octagon. You went in and stood in the middle of the floor and about a million images of you were in the mirrors and did what you did. The House of Mirrors was cool, but my favorite invention was a pulley thing. There was a block of wood and it weighted 33 pounds. If you used 33 pulleys to pull the load up it was effortless. Florence was great!
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