Sept 3 - The Police & La Traviata

It's 10am and we're still at our hotel, but we've already had some activity this morning. When we went down to the lobby to go to breakfast we were stopped by the police who had set-up a station in our hotel's lobby where they were checking passports. There were three police officers, two men and a woman. They were in plain clothes, but they had badges handing from their necks. We didn't have our passports on us because we weren't planning to leave the building. Unfortunately when we tried to go back to our room, the elevator was broken. So I was the lucky one to climb to the 7th floor to get them for us.

When we got back to the lobby, all they did was write down our info on a log. It's weird - but someone told us it's really common.

Okay - now for the thing I'm most excited about today. Jen figured out that La Traviata (my favorite opera of all time) is being played in Florence when we are there. We just bought tickets. I can't hardly stand waiting - we're also going to see Tosca on Sunday night. Going to the opera was the one thing I wasn't sure we were going to get to do, and now we're going twice, and to see La Traviata. The opera gods are smiling on us.

We're off for another day of sightseeing.

:) Kristin

P.S. We decided we're not going to stay overnight in Siena, instead we're going to stay in Florence for four nights (once we get there) on Friday and use our hotel in Florence as the home base for day trips around Tuscany. Oh, I love that we are free to change our minds over and over - it's so great.