On Saturday I met up with my aunt, two of my cousins, my grandma and her friend Jojo in a little village in Tuscany called Rigomagno. My friends Amy and Aaron were also there with me. There we played in the pool a lot and, and also played a lot of card games. On Sunday evening we went to another town called Lucignano for dinner, where my friend Aaron found a bee in his food. It was a fried, or maybe a baked, bee. By the way the bee was not supposed to be there! There was a sign for a zoo that my Mom tried to take my little brother to the next day, but we found out that the actual zoo was another 50 kilometers away. So my mom played with Kae at the park. Also my friend taught my brother to say “1, 2, 3, 4, tomato sauce” and from then on my brother said that every two minutes…
My parents went to Cortona, a pretty old town, but I stayed home to have a watergun fight with my cousins. Then we visited a bigger town called Sienna, which is exactly the way it used to be in the Renaissance. We spent the whole day there. It had a big square and lots of museums and another beautiful Duomo. We visited an old hospital with very old frescoes. Some of the frescoes had people getting surgery with animals around them, and also giving bread to the poor.
Today we visited a small town called San Gimignano. In San Gimignano there are lots of towers that were built by rich families in the Renaissance. The town is also completely the same as it used to be then. There is a beautiful Duomo and good food. I also tried ice cream from the 2006 gelato world champion, but I did not like it. I went to a torture museum where I almost threw up and I wish I had not gone there. Tomorrow we are going to Florence and Saturday we are leaving for Rome.
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