Siena, San Gigminano and Florence

We woke in Siena to yet another beautiful day. We toured the Church of Saint Dominic to give Catherine a shout...or at least her head and finger. I believe the rest of her is in Rome. We then went to the Duomo, which was to be one of the largest cathedrals in the world until the black death altered plans for the expansion.

We then boarded a bus for San Gigminano. I went to the Duomo, the kids ate gelato. The hilltop town has a distinctly medieval flavor.

We arrived back to the convent in Florence for the evening. Sister Rehma was waiting for us.

This morning we went to H & M, the girls wanted to shop. Then we went to the academy to see David and then to the market. I went to mass at the baptistry while the kids were shopping. The baptistry probably built in the mid- sixth century, mentioned in writings from about 867 and re-consecrated in 1029. But I had a moment thinking about the famous feet that had been there: the Medici, Leonardo, Michaelangelo....and the list goes on and on and on.

Tomorrow we are going to spend the day in Assisi. We are taking the train. So they can sleep on the way.

We are trying to expand their eating vocabulary...and some of them are at least trying some new food. I will try to elaborate more on this later. It is 10:00 and we just finished dinner, so my brain is full. The kids loved the fettuccini with trifled white sauce, Jeremy had wild boar sauce. Headway!