Round-the-World Holiday, June 23 - July 28, 2003

Me and Tuscany.

Looking back towards Florence.

Here's Snookums imitating the statue of Bacchus in the Gardens. Apparently the figure was modelled on Cosimo Medici's dwarf, Pietro Barbino. (Just some random trivia I learned on the Internet.)

While we were in Florence we took off for a quick day trip to Pisa. Here's a view of the Piazza dei Miracoli, with the baptistry (the building cut off on the left), the Duomo, and the companile (you know, the one leaning). :)

Be careful Snookums! Don't let it fall over! (In my defense, this was his idea and everybody else was doing it too.)

If you get the angle right, voila! No more lean!

Every time I saw anything tall I took a picture like this. I don't know why. I just have the impulse to crane my head back, I guess.

I confess that I took this photo simply because I thought I could use the little marble decoration between the arches as a quilt pattern. Too bad you can't even see it here!