Together at last

As things tend to do for my sister and I, everything worked out after the "missed my plane" start to our journey.  I got Milan, sat down and read for a couple hours and poof as if by magic carpet, my sister Laura comes as promised.

Yesterday we spent about 5 hours driving from Malpensa Airport in Milan to Volterra where we will call home until Thursday.  A couple of directional hiccups along the way (wipe that knowing grins off your face mom & dad), but again, as always, we made it.  Got a fairly good night sleep.  We are in the tiniest of rooms, but thankfully we were given a room with the "big" bed which means we got a full twin!  Good thing we love each other.  I wish I would have had the looks on our faces captured when we realized we had to lug our baggage up 5 flights of stairs, at least I don't feel guilty about missing the gym.  Our room opens up to the cobblestoned streets of Volterra which really is lovely.  That said I did catch a creepy guy in an apartment above and opposite our room glaring directly down at us.  We both laughed at how disappointed he was going to be, but I finally just waved at him which ended the voyeurism. 

Awoke to the sound of a dove cooing outside our window (I was thankful for my sister's confirmation that it was in actuality a dove making that noise...one can't be to certain with the close quarters and all).  Church bells also sounded as today is Sunday.  Incredible.

Today was spent getting to Pisa.  We are finding our way around, but they sure don't make it easy on us with signage, or lack there of, but for the journey to and fro is the adventure.  We came across an amazing field of blooming sunflowers.  Great photo opp!

Pisa was amazing.  What really struck me is while I have seen many pictures of the leaning tower I was completely unaware of the duomo and gallery structures that were connected to it.  

After a couple hours in Pisa we decided to lunch back in San Gimignano.  This had some of the most spectacular views I've ever seen.  Not just in the little village itself, with all the bell towers but of the surrounding valley and its artful topography as well.

People seemed a little nicer today as well.  Yesterday we couldn't help but notice that we seemed to be getting the stink eye from a lot of people.  Of course it very could have been due to the fact that we actually stunk after our long journey by planes and then auto (well sort of, it's one of those tiny European Fiat's, we both got a little too much sun on our faces from the drive, largely because our faces were nearly plastered to the windshield.  I told Laura we were like ducks under glass).  At one of stops we couldn't help but notice flies spending a little too much time around us and not others.

What can't be captured in this blog are those true sister moments that happen throughout the day.  Our abs are getting great workouts from laughing and that was a large reason for this trip---to spend great time together in a breathtaking backdrop.

Not sure what tomorrow will bring, but we do know it will be another fun day for the Worcester Sisters!