Pisa and Lucca

We took a day trip to visit Pisa and Lucca.
Pisa was completely miserable. Now, to be fair, the leaning tower is pretty amazing to see in person, but thats it. It is kinda like a trip to the aquarium when you are a kid who doesn't care much about fish. You run over and look at the otters, but then what? The fish are cool for a little while, but soon you just want some shade and a gelato. Unfortunately, in Pisa, shade is in short supply, and the day we went was oppressively hot. On the bright side, a bunch of the girls had to wear funny looking disposable shawls to cover their shoulders inside the church.



Lucca, on the other hand, was awesome. We didn't spend much time in the town, but it was quite posh and lovely. I stopped in for a gelato and had a very handsome gelato-tier giggle at my Italian, but other the that, we stayed mostly on the road around the city. We rented bicycles!! It was wonderful. I love bikes, and my friend Shannon and I thoroughly enjoyed peddling around stopping only briefly for me to dunk my head under a water fountain to cool down.