Day 24 HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

We celebrated by going to two world class museums! First the Bargello, one of the great sculpture museums, and then the Uffizi, the largest collection of Italian Paintings anywhere. The Bargello is a smaller museum with a ton of great stuff, including some great Michelangelo statues, which as always worth the price of admission, and probably Donatello's most famous statue, his version of David. There were other great statues from other great sculptors, but, due to the Holiday, I'll try to make this post brief!  After that we worked our way through the Uffizi. It tracks Italian art from pre-renaissance until around 1700, so like 500 years. The highlights were definitely Botticelli's Birth of Venus and his Rites of Spring. Both gorgeous paintings that are quite awe inspiring to stand in front of!  There are a few Leonardo DaVinci paintings which are always worth the price of admission, some early works by Giotto, a few nice Caravaggios and even Michelangelo's only panel painting.  It's a very impressive museum!  After that we came home took a small nap, then went out for our "Thanksgiving Dinner". It was fantastic!  Our usual Bruschetta and the best bowl of ribollita I've had without a doubt!  SO GOOD!  And the we ordered 3 pasta dishes!  That was like our stuffing! LOL  We got pappardelle with duck ragu, pici with sausage tomatoes and a touch of cream and ravioli with a truffle cream sauce!  All three were amazing! And then of course our favorite gelato place for a small dessert!  Have a wonderful Thanksgiving! Enjoy your families and whoever you're with. We are having a ball, the best time, but days like today, we want to be surrounded by family!  Something we don't get to do near enough due to our jobs and where we live!  We are so thankful for the life we have carved out for ourselves though, thankful to have the cutest, sweetest, smartest, most unique dog in the whole world, whom we miss like crazy!  We miss all of our customers who are also some of our best friends!  We thank you, we love you, we miss you, HAPPY THANKSGIVING!  Can't wait for Black Friday deals in Italy!!!  LOL JK  Talk to you tomorrow, our last real full day of the trip!