Saturday, September 18, 2010

a head and finger.....

i really need to find something stronger than Dramamine....strike #2!!!....not cool. today we went to Siena and San Gangalo for a day trip. In Siena we saw St. Catherine of Siena's head. It was kinda strange to see. i snapped a picture but it didnt turn out that great, we weren't supposed to take pictures anyway. after the head and finger, we walked to Catherines house. we saw her room and one of her sacrafices to jesus was a to sleep on a rock! after that we walked around to the big church on top of the hill. I cant remember the name right now. it is very hilly in Siena and those hills are super steep! :/ from there we walked to the amphitheater were they have horses races. that would have been neat to have watched, but alas they did not have any races going on. It was very windy and rainy out today so I was sure glad that i had brought my umbrella. After Siena we went to San Galgano were we ate lunch and tried some wine. I had a sip of a red wine but i didnt like it at all. it was way to dry. After lunch we went to see the churches that are in San Galgano. On of the churches had a sword in a stone. the sword belonged to Galgano himself. people had tried to pull the sword out, but no one succeeded. once we had finished our tours we still had 45 min before we had to be on the bus. Jennifer had a game for us that made us look like idiots. we were laughing so hard through out the whole game, that

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