Florence

Once we got into Florence we had to take a bus to the hostile. It didn't take long to find the bus but once we got on it was packed. I think we suffocated some people with our backpacks and got in everyone's way. And it was hot with no air conditioning. Florence had much better weather temperature wise...about 65 degrees. Once we got to our hostel we found that we had a private room...Wah Wah Wahhh. We didn't ask for it but I guess that's all they had AND it was 12 euro.
We immediately went out and got some pizza for dinner. It was awesome pizza to say the least and not too expensive. It was pretty late so we headed back to get some sleep so we could wake up early the next morning.
Once we woke up we headed into the city to check the sites. We really didn't know what too look for but we wandered out regardless. We bumped into these kid we met in Interlaken (random) from the US and we walked around with them. One of them lived near Venice for work so he knew where to go and what to see. We saw the Duomo (a huge cathedral that was really cool), the Ponte Vecchio (which is a famous bridge which had jewelery stores on each side), Giotto's tower, Palazzo Vecchio which has crazy designs all over the building, and of course, the David in the Accademia Gallery. The David is the statue Michelangelo sculptured with a scrap heap of marble that was being thrown out. It is supposed to be David right before he defeats Goliath. There were no pictures allowed but if you don't know its a 20 foot tall naked dude. It was sculpted perfectly and really has an aura about it. His right hand was slightly bigger than his left purposely because it symbolized the power that he had. We thought this was going to be overrated but it definitely lives up to all the talk and the pictures (above) don't do it any justice.
Later that day we hung out in hostel patio and just drank some wine that we bought earlier that was recommended. It was really good wine called Vernaccia Di San Gimgnano (a white wine). Probably the most liberal thing we have done the whole trip but it was a good time. We made some friends from Germany and hung out with them the remainder of the night.
The previous night, we both thought there might have been some bugs in our room, but this night we were certain. We could have slept outside in the forest and not have gotten bothered as much. They were attacking our ears like they were homing beacons. I (Stephen) ended up putting a bathing suit on my head the whole night but that still didn't work. We would both kept waking up to each other swinging pillows violently like it would help. So not so much sleep for Clint and Steve. So we got up, had the crappiest breakfast ever and headed to Rome as soon as possible. Something we noticed over here is that they love warm milk. We don't know if it's a European thing or just the hostiles we stay in.
There was a cool subway that had a ton of graffiti in the tunnel and I guess its a pretty big tourist attraction so we got to check that out too.