Birthday in Italy!

I'm going to just glance over the past week in Germany. It was relatively full of school, and trees, and something called a fish ladder. Doesn't that sound like a fantastic swear alternative? "FISH LADDERS!" I will show you some pictures from our trip to the Stuttgart Wilhelma Zoo and Botanical garden. Otherwise it has been more of the black forest and not much that I found interesting.

Oh, but on the 4th it was a wine tasting! That was very fun, even though I only tried three of the six because I am not a fan of wine generally. The wild sauer kirsche likour at the end was fantastic though! That translates roughly to wild sour cherry liquor.

This was from the fish hatchery. These little toads were everywhere.

So there were forests and wine involved, which was fun, minus spilling wine on my shirt, cleaning it off, then losing the shirt somewhere.

Then I got invited to go with a group to Florence on my birthday. Which is where I currently am! Yay Italy!

Meet the Duomo! Absolutely gorgeous!

So we got free birthday lemon shots from our Italian waiter named Antonio. He also wanted us to meet him at a bar afterward, and gave me his number, Hahahaha. That's one for the scrap book.

Today we had a lot of success shopping! I found scarves and a really warm hoodie for iceland. We also got to do laundry since everything smells like hiking boot, which is disgusting.

Tomorrow we're going to go see the statue of David!

More blog posts on Italy later, I'm getting tired. We did a lot of shopping today, and I'm almost done getting souvenirs!