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Today was our last morning in Florence, and the first day we’re out of our room by 8am.  We had breakfast and caught the first train to Pisa.  After winding our way through the city, we arrived at the Duomo and Tower of Pisa.  Jamie was quite disappointed, as the Tower was not nearly as impressive or large as it was supposed to be.  Against his better judgment, Nashon did get the typical picture taken with the tower (though he’s pushing it over instead of holding it up).  The grounds, along with the Duomo, baptistery, and Tower were simply beautiful, though very crowded with families and classes.  We took a million pictures of the tower, and opted to not climb it (the cost would have been about US$50).  We got back to the train station with 2-minutes until the next train back to Florence where we picked up our luggage which we had stored at the train station, and boarded a train to Rome.  We made the train only because it was running about 10-minutes late, and found that we had needed prior reservations for the ride (after we had taken off of course).  After paying the train attendant (who appeared very patient with us), we got to sit back and enjoy the train ride full of 8-10 year old kids making a lot of noise.  Rome has some of the craziest drivers!  It’s like they haven’t discovered how to put lines on the roads to separate cars, so no one knows how to stay in their own lanes.  We’ll leave the driving to the taxi cabs and locals.  We walked to the Spanish Steps which aren’t far from our hotel, but the wind picked up, so we retired early after dinner for a video in bed.  We’re hoping for better weather tomorrow.