Today we spent all morning at the Pitti Palace and all afternoon at the gardens there (the Boboli Gardens). Fun times! (And happily my cold is getting better.) The Pitti Palace has just as good an art collection as the Uffizi, and you get to see it in sumptuous palatial rooms. And, there weren't nearly as many tourists. We weren't supposed to take pictures (again) but digital cameras make it so easy to be discreet that I couldn't help myself. We all had fun sneaking shots and avoiding guards. I only got caught once taking a picture, but even then the guard didn't seem to care too much.
Besides the royal apartments there is also a modern art gallery, which was very good, and a costume gallery which was great too.
Besides giving a fashion history, they also have on view Cosimo de Medici I and his wife Eleanor of Toledo's clothes that they were buried in....meaning they were dug up a couple hundred years after their deaths. yuck. 
After a quick lunch we went outside to see the Boboli Gardens. Unfortunately the weather was pretty gray and rainy, although I did remember my umbrella today. Rainy weather did mean, though, that there weren't many other tourists out there. I and a couple other girls spent about 3 hours wandering the gardens.
Just as we were leaving the sun decided to come out.
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I remember the palace and gardens, but as I recall it was really, really hot when we were there.
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