Giro de Uffizi Museo! Tour of the Uffizi Museum

Today began with me meeting Joe and Marty Loughlin, their daugher Katie and friend Martha at the train station for their one-dayvisit to Florence. They are seeing "all of Italy" and are staying in a countryside villa nearby this week. Walking them around on a short tour was fun and then it was time to meet my group for a tour of some fine art. A little background info here - the Medici family were the richest folks around here for about 300 years and they collected a lot of high dollar art! Michelangelo was practically adopted into the family and he did a lot of painting for them as did many other most famous artists. Anyway, most of this great art is now on display at the Uffizi Museum and we saw it today! By the way - Uffizi means "office" in Italian and this huge building was the "Medici office building" during their lifetimes and later converted to the museum. After downing a strong cup of expresso to keep on going, we caught a bus and headed up to Piazza Michelangelo to see the view from above and yet another "David"! This one was bronze - turned green - from long years out in the open, but just as giant as the original in the Accademia we saw yesterday. Then it was back home and out to a "caffeteria" for supper. Another interesting day in Italy! More later!