From one extreme to the next

I decided to hit up the markets again this past week. I was on the lookout for a specific shirt and I have been looking for awhile now and haven't been able to find one. As of yesterday, I was at the same market 4 days in a row! lol I was also lucky enough to finally find the shirt that I so desperately wanted.... a black t-shirt with a big 1up green Mario mushroom on it! Score!!!

Now, I know your are laughing and thinking that I am a bit lame here, however let me explain. Although I was a child of the 70's my friends and I did like to partake in the occasional video game. Nintendo was our game system of choice. We didn't play them all of the time like the kids now a days, but we did play them. I bought myself my first GameBoy at age 13 and its been Mario Brother's ever since. When I came here and seen that they had these cheesy 1-up shirts available, I knew I had to have one.

I have also noticed how things change around the markets. The purses/bags for instance. Every few weeks the selection of bags changes. Once it does though the older ones get a bit lower priced and the new ones are promoted. Just like in a regular store really. The same goes for things like scarfs, trinkets, etc. Things are always changing.

I do enjoy my time though in the markets and realized that I had yet to take some pictures. So, I went out the other day and snapped a few. I needed to take my pictures from the eurochocolate event into the office so they could copy them and just happened to have my camera along. I actually was a little worried about my pictures from the festival but in the end realized there was nothing to worry about as she loved my pictures. Yeah!

I decided today to leave the city and check out a place called "The Mall". It is a big area filled with name brand stores (Gucci, Fendi, Diesel and more). I hadn't been and thought it might be worth a look and possibly a purchase or two. ;) Well I hopped on the bus at 11am and arrived at "The Mall" by 12pm. After my first stop in a very high end store (I totally forgot the name), I already realized how out of my league I was. I continued though to go in and out of over 50% of the stores. I am pretty sure I was getting some funny looks as I was just walking in, checking out the price tag on a purse that I was thought was cute, realized that it was approx. 300e above my budget and then walked out. Needless to say, I burned through the stores in record time. I think I had the quickest shopping trip ever as I realized that it was only 12:30pm. lol I had looked into approx 12 stores in 30min. I decided then to go and wait for the next bus that was scheduled for 12:45pm. I made it back to Florence before 2pm without a bag in my hand!

On my way back to the apartment I skimmed the suitcase vendors to see if there was any that caught my eye. I was just about to head home, suitcaseless when I seen it. My new hot purple large suitcase and for the low low price (after bartering) of 15e, it was my kind of deal. :)

Living in Europe definitely opens your eyes to the extremes of shopping, sometimes all in one day!

Gelato: Yogurt Bosco (sorry, I kept on forgetting to add this for awhile)
Temp: 15 today, raining and humidity 78% Brrr....