Long but productive day yesterday

So yesterday for part of our Sports Marketing class we took a field trip to the soccer museum here in Florence. It's the only one in the world and honestly it was pretty cool. The first person we met was a man named Mr. Fennie who was the doctor for the Italian National Soccer Team for something like 25 or 26 years. It was enough to where he was on the bench for 6 world cups. He even was a champion in the 80's. Oh did I mention that he was a person friend with Pele? There was a signed Pele jersey in the museum that was given to Mr. Fennie as a person gift that he then donated to the museum. Also we were able to see every single jersey worn by the Italian team that won the World Cup in 06 and we got to see the actually World Cup that they held up when they won. It was really cool to be separated only by a thin sheet of glass from those important artifacts. We also were able to go behind closed doors because of our teacher, an ex Italian premier league player, and see the facilities where the national team practices. It was a really cool morning.



After that Austin and I came home ate and took a quick break then we were on our way to Pisa for the afternoon. I had never been and so Austin was being a good sport and went with me. We got to see the leaning tower and we also got to see all the hooligans that were taking their ridiculous touristy photos. If you cant tell I didn't take one of those pictures although I did take a picture with me and the leaning tower. We also went into the baptistry which was really cool because the echo inside it was incredible. We also went inside the cathedral which had a lot of cool paintings on the walls and just a lot of other old pieces of art around that made it really interesting. As if this should be a surprise to anyone, but we even ran into an Aggie in Pisa. It was a family who had a son that was going to be a sophomore in the Corp and the dad was in the Air Force stationed in Germany. The only way we could tell was because the son had just taken a picture holding up an Aggie flag and as he was folding it up I could see "xas." That mixed with maroon could only mean one thing, Aggies. So we went up and talked to them for a little while and it was a good afternoon. When all was said and done it was about a 4 hour road trip that I'm glad we took.



It's weird that our time is running up here. As of today the 30th we only have around 9 days until we board our planes and head our respective directions, Austin and Eli to Dallas and Me to Qatar. It's sad but it's exciting at the same time.

Another post will be coming soon that has an update of the most amazing meal so far in Europe.

Trent