Banks, Assisi, Chestnut hunting

Siena is the home to the oldest Bank in the world: Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena. These is a museum about this bank but tourist are usually not allowed to go in. We are cool though and got to go in because it was part of our cultural experience here in Italy.
We saw one of the first bank notes, some cool architecture and a great view of Siena from the roof....


This past week Peter took us to Assisi, since Erika's family was in town they came too!

We saw the church of St. Francis...


We were walking and I stopped and looked in this mirror and we looked like midgets so we had to take a picture....


Friday I went to Peter's house for the good part of the day with about 11 other girls
Leah made us delicious mexican food..


We went on a hike around his house and for the most part had a nice relaxing day in the Italian countryside.



Saturday I hung around Siena and did homework. It was Gusippie's birthday so he had 4 friends over for dinner. Anna made delicious lasagna and we had meet with fries. Then the cake was 3 layers with nutella between the layers and rum in the layers.. yeah

Sunday we went chestnut hunting! Apparently every Sunday in the fall the woods are packed with Italians looking for nuts. Erika and I had a fun time searching the ground for the best ones. We got a ton...



Then on the drive home we stopped to look at the boar at this far. it had some babies but they ran into the woods..


i ate that.


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