firenze

yesterday frannie and i took the train into florence for the day. it was a quick trip but i managed to have a successful shopping day and florence is great. i still prefer rome, but it was interesting to see florence as very much a city atmosphere, but is cleaner and definitely more peaceful than rome. found the roberto cavalli cafe, which of course was right up my alley with walls plastered with past RC campaigns and the best cappuccino in town. can't beat that!
this morning i bit the bullet and awoke in time to walk to saint peter's for mass, and afterwords saw pope benny give his blessings to the masses.
this week shouldn't be too bad with only 2 1/2 days of classes and then pariiiiiiiiiis!