Travel Day(s)

11:45 AM (Mountain) July 12th to 7:00 PM (Central Europe)

We started the day by having a one-hour delay because our plane hit a bird. The bird was very much harmed, but our plane was not, so we were then on our way.

During our layover in Minneapolis, we enjoyed a pretzel and Bridget made friends with some nice French kids who had squishy cupcakes. One of the kids was very proud that she talked in English to Bridget. And then when we boarded the plane and hour later, we found that that same family was sitting directly behind us for the 8-hour trip to Amsterdam. The flight included vegetarian meals for both Bridget and Tish which were surprisingly delicious. The vegetarian breakfast not so much.

After the flight to Amsterdam during which Tish's computer screen decided to call the flight attendant three times by itself. We arrived at Schiphol airport and had 7-hour layover.

After eating some delicious Dutch pancakes with jam and getting some well-deserved coffee and tea, we walked through the airport. We saw a nice little library and a pleasant little museum put on by the Rijksmuseum. We even found Molly's new favorite store.

Molly's new favorite store

Then we found some benches and got an hour nap before trying to find our plane. Due to construction our flight to Florence started with a bus ride which was unexpected.

After more than 24 hours of transit, we finally arrived in Florence. The Florence airport was not the most modern airport I've ever flown into, but it was nice to finally end the trip. Take a taxi to our VRBO and settle into our Italian vacation.

The VRBO is a charming little one bedroom with a loft apartment and we celebrated our completion of the day by eating some bat pizza at a local pizzeria. Tish has insisted I clarify that the pizza did not have any bats as ingredients. The restaurant’s name meant bat in Italian. We had a lovely eggplant, parmesan and a wonderful multiple vegetable vegetarian pizza.