Heading off for another day in Florence with our only plan being to visit an ice cream shop that Pookie can make and create her own ice cream. We made it there. Sabs fell asleep and Pookie created and devoured her very own creation.

After Sabs woke up we went off to the phone store to sort out a data plan, bumped into some guy who was pretending to be a statue (this will have its own post), and then decided to walk down some streets we havent seen and head to a park. As luck would have it we bumped into a Vegetarian Art Exhibit that opened its doors just as we arrived!! We wandered on in and they had an entire table of vegetarian food and drinks for free. We ate and looked all around and the girls loved it b/c it was all about animals. Pookie said “Hey Mama, we should bring Mimi here b/c then maybe she wont want to eat animals anymore”. I dont think Pookie is going to eat meat anytime soon. She is very into the whole vegetarian concept and truly interested in everything about it. She ate a fake meat sandwich and loved it. We have since tried to find where it came from so we could get it again but haven’t had luck (not many people spoke english there). We did find another vegetarian restaurant that we ended up eating at the other night and was yummy.

We couldn’t believe how lucky we were to bump into that just as it opened and then to walk into a table full of delicious food and drinks. So random. After we were done we kept on our path to get to the park. On the way there we saw this toy store that looked like a little mom and pop shop so we walked in. Turns out the store went back forever and was a huge store with a build-a-bear type thing inside, a lego table, and two floors. We got lost in there for prob over an hour. It always amazes me that inside toy stores Sophie loves to play with everything but rarely asks to bring anything home. Her and Sabs played and played and she did not ask for one single toy. When it was time to go we just carried on our way.

By the time we left the store it was after 6pm and we were still about 1/2 from the park or 1/2 hour from home. We decided to head back home which is why i say sometimes it is more about the journey than it is the destination. We never actually made it to our destination but we had a super fun journey together. We picked up Sophie’s favorite pizza from the restaurant down the block, i made a big salad and we all chowed. xo