Santa Croce

 It's finally happened. We visited Santa Croce and The Barghello National Museum yesterday and I just could not go to one more church. I had hit the proverbial wall. 

Santa Croce is beautiful and grand, but more to the point, it's where the world's most famous minds are buried. Machiavelli, Michelangelo, Galileo, Marconi, Dante, and a plaque for Da Vinci. There are Bonapartes and Princes' wives.

I found each one of the most important ones in turn and took photos. I spent some time with each one. And upon approaching Galileo's tomb I burst into tears. I imagine it would be like visiting Jerusalem for a Christian. 

Standing at the tombs of all the greatest thinkers, scientists, and mathematicians, it was not lost on me that they are all entombed in a church. Except Da Vinci is actually buried in France.

Barghello was a bit more exhausting, and by the time we were done with three floors of antiquities, I just couldn't do anything else. 

We ate gelatto while we walked. We stopped and had ceasar salad and pizza and then when we started walking home, it started raining. We tried to get a taxi but that didn't work so we walked home in the rain. It was POURING. We were all partially wet when we got home.

We needed to rest so we could go to our La Giostra dinner at 10:30 pm. At around 8, Robert called and found out our reservation was for Sunday night. Not Saturday. So we walked in the rain to where we had eaten the first night and ate inside. I had filet again.

Sunday is the Accademia and the Duomo and we have to decide if we keep our La Giostra reservation considering Monday morning is the early early balloon ride.

What day is it??