Stomach sandwich

It's hard to believe that it's finals week for classes already! We don't have a final test in my printmaking class, but we do have to have all of our finals prints done by Thursday. Luckily I finished one project last week and another today, so I only have one to go. I may have had to do extra studio time in the past couple weeks, but thinking about it, I'd rather do that than have a final test or paper to turn in like most of my friends have to do!
This week has been pretty laid back so far. I've already seen almost all of the sights I wanted to in Florence, so this week is devoted to spending time with my roommates and friends...and shopping of course :) This past weekend, I went to the Boboli Gardens across the river. I didn't get a chance to walk through the whole thing, because these gardens are huge. I did get to see a good portion of it, so that was good enough for me! Thankfully, the weather here has been beautiful for the past week. Although it gets really hot during part of the day, I don't mind because it's much better than cold rain like a couple weeks ago!
Yesterday some of my roommates and I went to Mercato Centrale (a huge indoor market) to get some food to make dinner for last night and tonight. While we were there, I also had to stop at a certain restaurant for lunch. A few weeks ago, Mom sent me a "top 10 list" of things to do in Florence, and one of them is to have a tripe sandwhich at a place called "Da Nerbone" in Mercato Centrale. At this point, I had done 8 out of 10, so I had to do this one so I can complete the list! For those of you that don't know, tripe is cow's stomach. Yes. I had stomach in my stomach yesterday. And surprisingly it didn't taste too bad!
This morning, Alessia, Ashley, and I got up really early to walk to a certain market that happens only on Tuesdays. We wanted to go before class to make sure that they still had a good selection, so we left a little before 7:30. It was a 30 minute walk to get there (and another 30 minutes to class!), so we definitely got our exercise this morning! When I come home, I'm going to have to do a lot of walking because otherwise I'm going to feel very lazy since I've been doing a LOT of walking here!

 Boboli Gardens (looking at the back of Pitti Palace)

 Produce stand inside Mercato Centrale

Eating my tripe sandwich :p