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| Before the oven. |
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| In the oven! |
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| Did this work? It was hard to tell if it was done without a meat thermometer! |
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| Oooooo! Yummy! |
Well, Sunday dinner was a success! We didn't tell the kids that one of the roast things was rabbit. crhis just picked out two stuffed roast things from the butcher and we didn't know what was in them until we cut them open after cooking.
The chicken one was stuffed with pork and pistachios (too bad for Chris!) It was soooooo good. The rabbit one was stuffed with ham, an eggy-pancake kind of thing and cheese and was wrapped in bacon and rosemary. yum. They were both really good. Very rich. the kids like both of them and they didn't even freak out when we told them it was rabbit!
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| Waiting outside Daddy's favourite meat shop. |
This morning we went to the Museo Galileo - Also known as the Museum of the History of Science. Liam and Grace really wanted to go, and I'm so glad we did because it was so awesome! I have no pictures whatsoever, because they weren't allowed, but there's lots on their website.
We really enjoyed seeing all the old scientific instruments, such as Michelangelo's geometry set, especially because Liam just started geometry in math. Antonio Santucci's Armillary Sphere was simply amazing. It's hard to tell from the picture how big or complex and yet delicate it is. It's easily 13 - 15 feet high and had at least 30 different rotating rings inside depicting the planet's orbits, the 7 heavens, etc.
The kids didn't really like all the plaster carvings of the very life-like cross sections of women with babies in the womb (just the woman's stomach to mid thighs, with even a cross section of the leg and muscles and bone) and how they can present giving birth.
Another surprising exhibit was a small case displaying 3 of Gailieo's fingers and a tooth.
Yup. His fingers.
Eeeeeeeeeew! We were eavesdropping on the English tour near us and the tour guide was telling of one of the "relics" that had gone missing sometime in the 1900's, and then in the 1970's this lady bought a lot of antiques at auction and was going through it and there's Galileo's finger! Yuck! It's in a glass case at least.
All the glass instruments were really incredible. They had a whole case filled with thermometers and tine little vials and such. They were so delicate and all hand blown!
We were all surprised at the incredible care and beauty put into everything. The telescopes were decorated so beautifully and the "ladies telescopes" were often made out of ivory or jeweled. Things that were made as an experiment, or to show some concept were made like beautiful pieces of furniture.
I also didn't know people were so smart so soon. Sounds stupid, I know. But I didn't know how much scientists knew about electricity so early. There was this glass tube with another glass tube inside of it and on the inside tube were small squares of foil in a helix pattern and both ends were capped in brass. When a current was applied to one end, it would cause the current to jump from one square of foil to the next, causing it to light up. Like an early light bulb! Who knew!?!
It was very all very cool!
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| The cool Braille map we "discovered" (ie finally noticed!) in the Piazza Repubblica |
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| Me hanging some sheets out the window to dry. Chris scared the bejeebers out of me when he took the picture and I nearly dropped the sheet! |
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| See! There ARE pictures of me, albeit not good ones! |
The weather was much nicer today, around 15 degrees. This is more what we thought it would be like, but up until now, it's been fairly windy and cold. Cold, like, 5 or 7 degrees, so I guess I can't complain!
Papa and Grandma McLean will be here tomorrow morning and the kids are so excited they want to go to bed early. We should probably forage for some dinner first!
That's really Cool! I loved trying to figure out the geographic map of Florence. Also I loved hearing about Gallileo's fingers and teeth. HAVE FUN!
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