e. Venice - a beautiful place, but sadly lacking trees. Two days was the perfect amount of time to stay, so that I could get my tree fix in Tuscany as soon as we left. While we were there, though, we rode a gondola (quite exciting):
and we passed by a restaurant on the corner of one of the blocks that was displaying a vibrant menagerie of sea creatures. Shannon: "Look! it's one of those...those flat fish(!) it's called a...a....." (Shannon clearly thought it was a sting-ray). An italian waiter nearby finished her sentence: "Eet's a Flounder!" Shannon, realizing that it was, in fact a flounder, and that an italian man she had never met before was yelling about flounders in the middle of the street, added: "Yes, a flounder!" and briskly walked on her merry way. I laughed heartily in her wake.
f. On day two of our Florence experience, we took the day off to head to Fiesole - a smaller Tuscan village on the hill just 15 minutes outside of the city. It was a lovely day: exploring pastry shops, hiking through the tuscan wilderness:
and watching the sunset over the city of Firenze. But as the sun was going down, the glory of the day was only just beginning...if I told you it involved Canadians and the Minotaur, you might not believe me. So I'll tell you it involved fish food and a taxi. Truth be told, it involved all four....
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