Hey, I'm back in Nuremburg. I arrived at about 6 today and was super excited to be back, it felt like coming home. I wanted to give a bit of an update and also go into some detail about some of the things I mentoned earlier. After leaving Rome, traveled to Tuscany and passes the little town of Pisa seeing the leaning tower of Pisa that made the tiny town so well known. When we arrived. we stayed in a town that had two levels. One was in the mountains and the other in the valley. We were staying in the one that was in the valley, but we took a gondola to the top town where we found a castle as well as a bell town. The castle was open to the public so we went inside and sat down in the center of the walls and discussed what we had seen, prayed for the trip and the things we saw and the people we encountered. We ended the time with songs of praise and then went and got some gelato. By the way, Gelato is a really creamy European ice cream that we all get every time we visit a new town. From Tuscany, we traveled to Revenna where we saw a lot of Basilicas. One of them was built by Emperor Justinian of the Byzantine Empire. The inside was covered with golden mosaic tiles from floor to ceiling, and outside Justinians basilica thre is a tomb with was built for the daughter of Theoderic but she was never buried there because she died while traveling abroad, but her cousins and brothers were buried there instead. Theoderic's daughter was a Christian so the tomb was covered in mosaics depicting the chi-ro symbol as well as events in Christ's life.
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