Monday morning was liesurely after our opera adventure! I made a large pot of Tuscan "zuppa (soup)" for lunch which we enjoyed around the table in the courtyard. Then we hopped a bus across the Arno river to visit the Boboli Gardens. They are just behind the Pitti Palace where the Medici family hung their coat of arms for a couple of hundred years. The photos will show you all around - someday I'd like to see it in full bloom. That funny name - Boboli - meant "wooded area" back in the 1500's and I guess it just stuck - it is fun to say - bob-o-lee! Back at LaContessina, we had another great dinner with Carol and Louise (kind of jazzed-up leftovers from last night) - delicious again! Three meals "in" today - yay! saving euros! Tomorrow is the last day for this group then the bicyclers arrive from the north. More later!