Giorno 1

9:00 p.m. in Florence and the sun was still out. pretty fabulous.

Getting here was an adventure that included (lowlights) 2 cancelled flights, waiting a total of 4 hours on the runways of three different airports, a missed flight, a missing bag, finding that some of the liquids in my CHECKED bag are missing and being ripped off in the florence airport when exchanging my money.

Highlights included passing through airport security with Seal (singer and husband of Heidi Klum), successfully maneuvering through the Paris airport, never losing my cool, arriving to my hotel in Florence and buying a neck pillow (best thing ever).

So far so good. Benvenuto.