Our first major stop for the day was the Salvatore Ferregamo SHOE MUSEUM! Oh yes, that's right. A whole museum devoted to shoes.
For those unfamiliar with the name, Salvatore Ferregamo is known as the "shoe-maker of the stars". The museum was AWESOME! We saw the wooden forms for celebrities like Audrey Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe. There were receipts from orders for Mrs. John Wayne, Ginger Rogers (OMG), Katherine Hepburn. The walls were covered with pictures of Ferregamo and all of these old-Hollywood hot-shots. Then, there were the shoes themselves- each one a work of art, exquisitely and masterfully made! Some of the owners- Marilyn Monroe, Sofia Loren, Carmen Miranda, just to name a few. As usual, photos were not allowed, but we couldn't resist taking just one!
The Ferregamo museum was just TOO much for a couple of shoe nuts like Jackie and me. :) Our heads were like spinning by the time we walked out of the museum. :)
We headed back to the apartment for lunch. The weather was really nice, so we decided to go to the Boboli gardens.
After the Gardens, we decided to walk up to the Piazzale Michaelangelo, which has a beautiful view of the city, and a fake David! lol! :)....of course, more inappropriate comments were inevitable. :)
There were SOOOOO many stairs up to Michaelangelo's square! ugh!
And that's not even counting the steep streets we had to take to get to the stairs! lol!
But it was definitely worth it! The view was gorgeous!
Since we were already in the neighborhood, we went up to San Miniato. More stairs. UGH. lol
After all this exploring, we were exhausted, so we went back to the apartment to chill for a little while. We had dinner with my roomies, then we all went to Loch Ness. Some awkward Swedish boys bought us roses. We're pretty sure they were like 15. LOL.
Only two more fun-filled days with Jackie left! :( The week is going too quickly!
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