We are in Florence now

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We are in Florence now but no report on that yet, cause we just got here. We been hanging out in the Italian part of Switzerland with Cyrille's family, including some aunts, uncles, and cousins, and chilling deep. Lots of eating over the Easter holiday. Easter is big out here. Especially for the Italians. Literally everything in Italy was closed Sunday and Monday. I guess Sunday is the Jesus day and on "Easter Monday" everything's still closed, for some kind of family day. Nice tradition, I guess, but it seems like everything is always closed in Switzerland. Like, it's illegal to have stores open past 6 or 7 pm, so the workers can go home and spend time with their families. Enlightened, perhaps, but inconvenient! One time, we were trying to buy beer, and all the stores in Fribourg Canton (it's like a state) were closed by law, so we went to the train station, which is federal property, so the train station stores can be open later. Dumb, right? But we got our beer.

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