This is how excited I was...

...to get to the front of the bloody line to see Michaelangelo's 'David' at the Galleria dell 'Accademia in Florence.

Blooming hell, in Florence you have to line up for everything. To see 'David' we were in a queue for almost 3 hours in the sun, standing. I finished an entire book. Not happy Jan. Johnny and I actually developed a rotating shift system whereby we would each get to sit for 15 minutes in the shade while the other person lined up against the sunned on wall. It was pretty bad.

Plus right at the front of the queue some guy who pretended he only spoke French and didn't understand the rules tried to cut in. I led the lynch mob to kick him out of the queue. Eventually he backed out although he tried to cut in a bit further down the queue. So I did the civil service of informing the people he tried in front of that there was a queue jumper on the loose. They lynched him too. I did the triumph dance when he left, defeated. Muahahahaha!!!

Okay I spent the whole post talking about lining up because it wasn't worth it. The statute is pretty damn good but the rest of the gallery is pretty crap and just seeing David is not worth lining up for 3 hours AND paying 10 euros for no matter what anyone says. I'm glad I did it this one time, but I will definitely not be repeating this epic feat any time soon...

For those of you after photos I have uploaded new photos in my Album (look for 'Italy').

Or here is a link to the Facebook album:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=12125&l=85aa2&id=709057418