so many footsteps...

the last two days have brought quite a bit of traveling for my poor little feet. yesterday was filled with wonderful florence and today was marked with quaint monte olivieto and buonconvento. what a tiring, but wonderful two days. from time to time i feel myself have these "aha" moments where it hits me..."i'm walking up a hill, through cyprus trees, leaving an abbey settled by saint benedict, in oh ya-ITALY!" or "hmm i like these leather gloves, alot, i wonder if its italian leather? oh wait i'm here, in italy, shopping at a handmade leather glove shop with the factory right down the street on the corner." it seriously is so incredible being here and i love when i realize just a little bit more that i am here. this week will hit the half way mark and i just have to say that i really don't want to leave. the people, the scenery, the food, the friends, everything. its so different from life in provo and i am loving getting to know things that i have never experienced or been exposed to. it's so crazy to feel perfectly content with this much that is going on in my life...it seems that this is all too good to be true- but yet it is true. and it is good. but not too good.