A Couple Randoms...

A medical students' anatomy lab classroom. They would disect the body in a 24 hour class in which the best student stood inside the ballastrud with the body while the professor (who never touched the body) indicated with a long pointer where the student was to cut. The students could not ask questions, take bathroom breaks, or eat during the class, which was held once a week. The entire room is made of wood because this material best absorbs the smells of the disection. Bologna is credited with having one of the oldest universities in the world...the university offered a wider variety of other schools of its time and was also unique in that it was a public university...meaning that if you could pay you could attend (despite gender, class, race, etc).

A slightly awkward fountain in the Main plaza of Bologna...I mean, what does one say about such a statue? "That's...nice(?)" "How...interesting(?)". I just don't know...but it reminded me of the Will & Grace episode where Grace's waterbra springs a leak.

The legend of the town is that this giant bowl in Bologna is the bowl that Pilot used to wash his hands during the trial of Christ.

In front of the Arch of Constantine in Rome.

On top of the Duomo in Florence....this is really only 1/4 of the group...we tried to get this guy to take a group photo of us but he didn't understand the "group" part so we ended up with a bunch of random pictures.

At the Trevi Fountain in Rome.

The naked fat man riding a turtle (a really random statue we found in the gardens of one of the Palazzos in Florence.

Part of the really pretty garden in Florence where we found the fat naked turtle man.

I am not one to get all excited about cars, but this one is preeeety sweet...a classic 1950 or 60 something Farrari at the Farrari museum...we wanted to get a tour of the factory but apparantly only Farrari owners are allowed.