Hi, I have a map update for you, here is the link, Link. If you want to see the map just go to the map page found in the menu at the top of the blog.

3 days ago Dad, Denise, Stanley, Popo, and I set out from our Airbnb in Lucca to the train station. We were going to go on a daytrip to the  The Leaning Tower of Pisa while Mom stayed at home (she had been 20 years ago). We bought train tickets at a machine and boarded our train. Most people got off at Pisa San Rossore (the station close to the tower) but we got off at Pisa Centrale (in the center of the city). We walked through the city until we got to a panini place for lunch. It was called L’Ostellino, I got a roast pork sandwich and it was really good. We then walked to the tower, we thought we might go up but it was 18 euros and kids were not allowed. Here is me “holding up” the tower. On the grounds of the tower there was the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Pisa Cathedral (in Italian: Cattedrale di Pisa), and the Baptistery. We got tickets for the Cathedral and it was really cool, unfortunately we didn’t take any photos so I can’t show you it but here is a link to an image of it: Link. I think we did a pretty good job of making this photo look real.Here is Stanley (or as I call him Granpa) pretending to hold up the tower.  The tower started to be constructed on August 9, 1173. Because the soft ground, the tower had begun to lean by the time its builders got to the third floor, in 1178. Shifting soil had destabilized the tower’s foundations.  It kept leaning more and more until in 1990 it was leaning 5.5 degrees. The tower was leaning dangerously low, here is a link to it in 1990, Link. Scientists thought it would topple over so they tried to fix it and they eventually succeeded in reducing the lean to 3.97 degrees, it’s current angle. We walked from the tower to Pisa San Rossore and took the train back to Lucca, we walked to our apartment, and relaxed for a while before Stanley and Popo made us dinner at home and my parents went out for date night.