pisa & sienna

the last few days in italy were spent in pisa and sienna.
we still stayed in florence, but would drive to pisa {about an hour away} and sienna {about an hour away in the other direction}.

the tower of pisa was awesome! it was a rainy day when we saw it, but was still just beautiful.

the wall surrounding the historic part of pisa...

on sunday we went to church in pisa. we found out that this was the very first chapel built in italy. it was really fun to see the members and share sacrament meeting etc with them. there are now many stakes in italy...and even a temple on it's way {in rome}!...

here's a picture of our hotel in florence...

the side of the hotel... like i said earlier, our hotel was on top of a hill just outside of florence. the view was so pretty...

one of the many antiques inside our hotel...

sienna...

we loved sienna.

here is the famous square.

more gelato :)...

these next pictues were taken while driving to and from pisa and sienna. the countryside was so pretty....