Florence - Day 3 {Duomo, Santa Croce, Duomo Museum}
our last day in Florence got off to a bit of a chaotic start. we were supposed to have packed, cleaned the apartment (including doing the dishes and taking out the trash), and dropped off the keys at the booking office by 10 AM, and we were also planning to attend the 10 o'clock mass at the Duomo. we also wanted to drop off our suitcase at a luggage storage place for the day. as anyone could have predicted, we were frantically packing and cleaning right up to the very last minute. while i was doing the dishes, somebody knocked on the apartment door and Nick answered it. i could overhear a brief conversation in Italian and then he shut the door and said he thought maybe they were asking if we wanted to join in the demonstrations he had seen in one of the main squares. i thought maybe they were the cleaners coming to turn over the apartment for the next guests, but they weren't wearing uniforms and didn't seem to be asking us to leave. anyway, by the time we made it out to th...