UNCLE DAVID

First off, the David is super mega big.  Carmen expected the statue to be life size and Carmen was wrong.  Goliath must of had the same rationale.  Carmen apologizes for the framing issues in the photo, as every room of the Accademia is somewhat ardently guarded by seated guards that are ever vigilant of anyone trying to take a picture, of anything.  They appear lacksidasical and job-beaten and bored, but as soon as they hear the telltale flash of an Asian's camera they explode and go all Italian screaming "No photo!" and gesture madly.  Then they slowly slink back to the chair, watching.

Some non-David highlights included a huge painting called Tree of Life by Pacino di Bonaguida, which depicts Christ crucified on the tree of life, from which little spheres of familial life hang. A bowl of water made by a German in the 1960's.  Inexplicably, in the hall of sculptures that literally teems with smallish but nevertheless intricate carvings of white marble, therein sits a green, blocky paper mache foot on a pedestal.  There is also a museum of mid-century instruments that was quite awesome.  Carmen got to see how a piano works!  It uses strings and little hammers.

Overflow Side-note From Previous Post:  The drinking age in Italy is SIXTEEN.  By way of the transitive property, kids get fake ID's at around 12, and most of the walls of the fake American sports bar are adorned with cramped pictures of 12-year-olds at fake 16th birthday celebrations using multiple curly-straws to sip out of a 2 foot plastic martini glass.