Total eclipse of the...moon :)

I can't believe how fast this week is going! On the bright side, I did get to do more sight-seeing in Florence earlier this week. On Monday, Marie from my class and I climbed all the stairs up to get to the top of the dome on Duomo. The stairs were a little intense at times (and we were never happier to see rest platforms in our lives!) but the view from the top was amazing. One funny thing is that I could see my apartment window and balcony from the top, so I called my roommate Amy and told her to go outside and wave. And I could see her! 
Yesterday, my other roommate LaWanda and Marie and I went to Basilica di Santa Croce, which is the church where Galileo and Michelangelo are buried. It was a little hard to figure out what all the tombs said because the signs telling about them were in Italian! I am learning a little bit, but if someone tried to hold a long conversation with me in Italian, then I probably couldn't do it :p
Last night, there was a lunar eclipse that was visible in Europe, but not the US. So a few of us went up to Piazza Michelangelo (where you can see a great view of Florence) to see it. We could see the moon really well because it was a beautiful day yesterday and there were no clouds in the sky at all. It looked a little creepy though because it was dark and red. I tried getting a picture of it, but my camera couldn't get it that well. Oh well, it was still cool to see in person!

 Michelangelo and I! (well, he and his tomb anyway)

 See the little reddish-orange dot to the upper left of the bright orange street light? That's the moon in the lunar eclipse!

 View of Florence at night from Piazza Michelangelo